Knowledge that I'd like to document for the list. By trial and error, on Centos 5 I've found that you should use single quotes if your password contains special characters such as '$'. Double-quotes didn't work. I also found (thx, Google) that in Exchange 2007 plaintext password authentication is disabled by default, but it can be turned on (assuming that POP3 is enabled on Exchange server in the 1st place) http://msexchangetips.blogspot.com/2007/11/exchange-2007-pop3-err-command-is-not.html and many others.
Also, I think you can use secure POP3 (port 995) but it seems I would need a version of fetchmail with SSL compiled in. The stock version that comes with Centos 5.7 doesn't. Nor does it have NTLM compiled in. NTLM can be used with IMAP (secure port 993) if I understand correctly. [root@tracker ~]# fetchmail -V fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged. This is fetchmail release 6.3.21+HESIOD+NLS. Our Exchange server does have OWA (outlook web access), and I've found two tools that can access mailboxes via OWA - DavMail and FetchExc. Mike From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 3:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [rt-users] fetchmailrc This is what we use (pulling emails from a gmail account, hence the 995 port) : ~rt/.fetchmailrc: set postmaster "ronen" set daemon 600 pool pop.gmail.com with proto pop3 user '[email protected]' there with password 'XXXXXXX' is user5 here options ssl crontab for user rt: 5,15,25,35,45,55 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 0 -P 995 -ssl -smtpname [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> -u [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> pop.gmail.com -f fetchmail.test 2>&1 > /dev/null fetchmail.test: poll pop.gmail.com proto pop3: username "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" password "XXXXXXXX" mda "/opt/rt4/bin/rt-mailgate --url http://cm-help --queue CM --action correspond" Ronen From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> On Behalf Of 20/20 Lab Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 23:45 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [rt-users] fetchmailrc Shouldnt you have "s around your user name? the only difference I have in mine is user "username" pass "password" to user here tho our mailserver auths with full domain. On 11/16/2011 12:49 PM, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> wrote: Using fetchmail for 1st time to collect mail from an Exchange server. Exchange 2010 RT 4.0.1 Centos 5.7 fetchmail release 6.3.21+HESIOD+NLS. Here's my /opt/rt4/etc/fetchmailrc: poll mail.domain.com proto pop3: user trackrequests there with password 'cleverly removed' is kiss here mda "/opt/rt4/bin/rt-mailgate --url http://xtracker.domain.com. --queue General --action correspond" When I invoke fetchmail -f /opt/rt4/etc/fetchmailrc, it appends "@mail.domain.com" to the username, whereas the correct user is [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. If I specify user [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> in the fetchmailrc file, then fetchmail turns it into [email protected]@mail.domain.com<mailto:[email protected]@mail.domain.com>. For example: [root@xtracker ~]# fetchmail -f /opt/rt4/etc/fetchmailrc fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged. fetchmail: Authorization failure on [email protected]@mail.domain.com<mailto:[email protected]@mail.domain.com> fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL) I've googled for an answer, but haven't stumbled across it yet. Thanks for any help, Mike -------- RT Training Sessions (http://bestpractical.com/services/training.html) * Barcelona, Spain - November 28 & 29, 2011
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