This is my first time setting up a mailing list and I'm still a little
shakey, so bear with me if these are dumb questions. :-)
I have emerged fetchmail, mailman, and postfix. I think I have mailman
and postfix playing nice together finally; however, I have a couple of
(hopefully) small issues with my fetchmail setup.
I'm running under the assumption that my .fetchmailrc file should be
under /usr/local/mailman (where the system thinks mailman's home dir
is). In that file I have this:
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# wake fetchmail daemon up every 60 seconds
set daemon 60
# mailinglist1 mailing list
poll pop.MyMXDomain.com protocol pop3
username mailinglist1uid with
password secretword, is mailinglist1 here;
poll pop.MyMXDomain.com protocol pop3
username mailinglist1requestuid with
password secretword, is mailinglist1-request here;
poll pop.MyMXDomain.com protocol pop3
username mailinglist1adminuid with
password secretword, is mailinglist1-admin here;
# mailinglist2 mailing list
poll pop.MyMXDomain.com protocol pop3
username mailinglist2uid with
password secretword, is mailinglist2 here;
poll pop.MyMXDomain.com protocol pop3
username mailinglist2requestuid with
password secretword, is mailinglist2-request here;
poll pop.MyMXDomain.com protocol pop3
username mailinglist2adminuid with
password secretword, is mailinglist2-admin here;
# mailinglist3 mailing list
poll pop.MyMXDomain.com protocol pop3
username mailinglist3uid with
password secretword, is mailinglist3 here;
poll pop.MyMXDomain.com protocol pop3
username mailinglist3requestuid with
password secretword, is mailinglist3-request here;
poll pop.MyMXDomain.com protocol pop3
username mailinglist3adminuid with
password secretword, is mailinglist3-admin here;
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My first problem is simply that when I run "/etc/init.d/fetchmail start"
I get an error telling me that there is no /etc/fetchmailrc file. Well,
of course, the error is correct that I don't have such a file. What
should go in it? I assume that the mailing list fetchmial config stuff
needs to stay in the mailman dir, but if I'm wrong, let me know. A
google search and a ton of playing with it hasn't helped me. :(
Secondly, as this if the first time I've done this, it would be nice to
get some feedback on the .feetchmailrc file I detailed above. Is this
what it's supposed to look like when I have multiple lists running on
this box? Do I need the create a new user for each list or will the "is
mailinglist1 here" be interpreted and handled by mailman properly? When
I do get fetchmail daemon running, does it cycle through all users
looking for fetchmailrc fiels to run or do I need to tell it about the
mailman .fetchmailrc file somehow?
Being a complete newbie wrt mailinglists, any help at all will be most
appreciated.
Thanks!
-Tom Caudron
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