Some answers, but still some questions. On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:34:03AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:24:04PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Jan Ulrich Hasecke([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > preconnect "mailfilter" > > > > > > Mh, my fetchmail hangs when I set this option: > > > > > > preconnect '/usr/bin/mailfilter -M /home/juh/.mailfilterrc' > > man mailfilter > > > > default Mailfilter tries to read $HOME/.mailfilterrc > > I also don't seem to be getting any response from mailfilter. > > Who does the preconnect command run as? > > My first assumption is that it runs as fetchmail, in which case $HOME > is /var/run/fetchmail on my default Debian setup, if I read my passwd > file right. Trying to read and write to my personal account would > likely only cause trouble. > > My second thought was that it runs as the local user you have > indicated in your fetchmail config file. .fetchmailrc man page says > nothing explicit, but since all the examples just say mailfilter, I > figured maybe this would work. > > Anyway, I have .mailfilterrc in my home directory, the one of the user > indicated in fetchmailrc. I did /etc/init.d/fetchmail restart, but I > see no sign of mailfilter; there is no mention of it in any log I've > checked, and no sign of the output mailfilterlog file either. > > I've done two things that might matter: > > fetchmailrc says > preconnect fetchmail > not > preconnect "fetchmail" > as in most examples.
For starters, I need to say mailfilter, not fetchmail. Once I do so, in debug mode I see fetchmail: awakened at Thu Sep 25 00:59:57 2003 fetchmail: 6.2.4 querying earthlink.net (protocol POP3) at Thu Sep 25 00:59:57 2003: poll started mailfilter: Error: The rcfile for preferences (usually $HOME/.mailfilterrc) could not be read. fetchmail: pre-connection command failed with status 65280 fetchmail: 6.2.4 querying earthlink.net (protocol POP3) at Thu Sep 25 00:59:57 2003: poll completed fetchmail: Query status=5 (SYNTAX) This suggests that fetchmail preconnect is running as user fetchmail; it certainly doesn't seem to be running as me! Note that this error prevents any downloading of mail. > > And .mailfilterrc uses ~/ notation > LOGFILE=~/Mail/mailfilterlog By running mailfilter from the command line of my user account, I discovered that ~/ notation doesn't work for it. Also, I said TESTING initially, but proper syntax is TESTING=yes I filed a couple of bugs against fetchmail about this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
