Dear Samuel,
these are working fetchmailrc files. The first configuration is used to read
from a multidrop pop3 box:
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set syslog
set postmaster ""
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
poll pop3.my-isp-server.de with proto POP3 envelope Envelope-to and options
no dns
localdomains mydomain.de
user 'username' there with password 'password' is 'root' '*' here
options fetchall
---- snip ----
this one is for a single user:
---- snip ----
set syslog
set postmaster ""
set no bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
poll pop3.my-isp-server.de with proto POP3 options no dns
user 'username' there with password 'password' options smtpname
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after all you should study the man page of fetchmail very well. There are a
lot of options and many things that can go wrong. Use the option 'keep'
while trying your configuration. It prevents you to loose mail.
When your configuration is working double check your settings. I've seen
many people loosing their emails with fetchmail. Turn off all SPAM Filters,
reverse DNS checkings, 8-bit checkings in courier. You run into problems if
courier refuses certain e-mails.
If you don't set the smtpname fetchmail delivers mail to the user who
invoked fetchmail. If you are logged in as sam your mail probably will be
delivered to 'sam@localhost' or just 'sam'.
Hope this helps
Manfred
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From: "Samuel Penn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [courier-users] Fetchmail, maildrop and IMAP
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Oops... this should have gone to the list, not just Juha...
On Monday 03 June 2002 21:13, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Samuel Penn wrote:
> > - From what I can gather, a sensible way of doing this is to
> > use fetchmail to get my email from various POP3 servers,
> > then filter the email through maildrop so that mailing lists
> > etc go into the correct IMAP folders.
>
> Why not just set up forwarding of mail on the other POP3 servers, to your
> server?
I don't own the POP3 servers, the only way I can retrieve mail
from them is via POP3, hence the use of fetchmail.
I could set up fetchmail to forward the email to the local SMTP
port after it has been downloaded, but Courier smptd gives an
error when I try this. e.g.:
sam@wotan:~> fetchmail
1 message for samuel.penn at mail1-gui.server.ntli.net (2191 octets).
reading message 1 of 1 (2191 octets) ..fetchmail: SMTP error: 513 Syntax
error.
fetchmail: can't even send to sam!
If I tell fetchmail to use the maildrop mda, then I get no error,
but the email vanishes into (as far as I can tell) nowhere. Maildrop
is run (I can tell from the debug), but the email is lost.
When using maildrop, fetchmail is set up as follows:
poll pop.cable.ntl.com proto pop3:
user samuel.penn with pass password
and wants mda '/opt/courier/bin/maildrop -v 5 -d sam'
Since the email is coming from a specific account, I always want
it to go to mailbox of user sam (then get filtered into subfolders
within that mailbox).
I'm not sure whether it needs to be running in embedded mode here.
- --
Be seeing you,
Sam.
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