Hi Abraham,
Pushing mail into the system is fine. What I would like is
a method to 'pull' new messages from the other servers.
When users clicks on 'Get Messages', they expect that messages
sitting on remote servers will end up in their INBOX.
With your setup the users would have to wait until fetchmail
ran (I assume you are running it in daemon mode with some
interval). If you set the interval to 10minutes, your users
would alwyas have to wait the 10 minutes before they saw any
new mail.
What I would like is a hook, that allows me to invoke fetchmail
when the user polls INBOX.
Max Okumoto
"Abraham Backus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Max,
>
> Have you discovered an answer to your problem?
>
> Here's something that I've set up which sounds kind of like what you are
> trying to do.
>
> I'm running the UW imap server with the default setup.
>
> Separately, I'm running fetchmail to get my mail from a couple ISP POP
> accounts, and use the "tmail" program from the imap utilities to inject the
> mail into my imap server.
>
> Here's an edited version of my ~/.fetchmailrc:
> set logfile /var/log/fetchmail.log
> set invisible
> set no bouncemail
>
> poll my.isp.net
> protocol POP3
> username abackus
> password sesame
> fetchall
> nokeep
> mda "/usr/local/bin/tmail %T"
>
> poll my.otherisp.com
> protocol POP3
> username a_backus
> password pass
> fetchall
> nokeep
> mda "/usr/local/bin/tmail %T"
>
>
> I suppose if you want separate folders for each ISP, you could do something
> like this in the "mda" line:
> mda "/usr/local/bin/tmail %T+The_ISP_Name"
> In this case, the mail will be injected into your user account in the folder
> "The_ISP_Name"
>
>
> I'm not yet familiar with spamassasin, but recently I started using procmail
> to do filtering and sorting on my mail. I just slipped this "layer" between
> fetchmail and imap's tmail, so that my fetchmailrc calls procmail instead of
> tmail, then in my procmail filters, it invokes the appropriate tmail command
> line to inject into the appropriate imap mailbox.
>
> Hope this makes sense :)
>
> -Abe
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hi, is it possible to trigger an action, on my mail machine, when
> > a user "checks mail". I want to invoke fetchmail to collect mail
> > from several imap/popmail servers.
> >
> > Yes I could configure the client (Outlook Express) to talk to all
> > the servers, but I want to run spamassasin on all the mail. The
> > spam would then be dropped into spam folders.
