Re: enable fetchmail system-wide mode
O/H Simon Barner έγραψε: Hello Gerard, I had to slightly modify it to work the way I wanted on my system. I would suggest that you do that 'AFTER' you have gotten it to relatively the way you want it to. Are these changes useful for other users, too? If so, please send me a diff, so I can modify the port. This is a little guide to setting up fetchmail 6.3.8 cd /usr/ports/mail/fetchmail make install clean echo 'fetchmail_enable=YES'/etc/rc.conf echo 'fetchmail_polling_interval=60'/etc/rc.conf The above two are mentioned in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fetchmail ee /usr/local/etc/fetchmailrc (initially it is nearly empty) set invisible set no bouncemail set no spambounce set postmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] set syslog poll pop.mail.yahoo.com timeout 40 proto pop3 user username pass password is [EMAIL PROTECTED] fastuidl 1 fetchlimit 0 limit 0 keep forcecr The above options are for a client who wishes to keep messages stored in remote POP3 mailboxes. *man fetchmail* for specifics, especially at the end where it gives a nice table of availiable commands and fetchmailrc options. The MTA handling the local domain is qmail, hence the required forcecr option. The timings (60sec per POP3 access) may seem agressive but I contacted the ISP and they have no problem with that and the client is happy to have nearly email-chat sessions. Users or abusers, as long as they pay the bucks chmod 0700 /usr/local/etc/fetchmailrc chown fetchmail:fetchmail /usr/local/etc/fetchmailrc (the permissions are already set anyway) /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fetchmail start Also there is a new option I haven't seen before. Suppose that fetchmail is sleeping and you want to wake it up *right now* to receive new messages: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fetchmail awaken Watch /var/log/maillog for fetchmail activity. -- RTFM and STFW before anything bad happens _ Thanos Rizoulis Electronic Computing Systems Engineer Larissa, Greece FreeBSD/PCBSD user ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: enable fetchmail system-wide mode
Hello Gerard, I had to slightly modify it to work the way I wanted on my system. I would suggest that you do that 'AFTER' you have gotten it to relatively the way you want it to. Are these changes useful for other users, too? If so, please send me a diff, so I can modify the port. -- Best regards / Viele Grüße, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Simon Barner[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpwxDUtaN1mw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: enable fetchmail system-wide mode
Hello Bob, I want to run fetchmail enabled for system wide mode. The command line cmd fetchmail -q issued from user root gets meaningless error msg. The error message may be meaningless to you, but without it cannot help you here. Reviewing /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fetchmail has comments talking about system wide mode running under user fetchmail. How does the system admin control fetchmail when user fetchmail needs password to logon and no where is password given during install. In daemon mode, the password is supposed to be stored in the config file. Fetchmail also supports more advanced authentication mechanisms like Kerberos, but I do not have any experience with it, and without support from the mail server it seems useless. Also /usr/local/etc/fetchmailrc which is suppose to be the config file is empty. Even fetchmailrc.sample is empty. Fetchmail supports literally dozends of configurations. IMO the port must try and duplicate fetchmail's documentation. You can use the fetchmailconf program to create and manage fetchmail configurations (must not build WITHOUT_X11 then). The port pkg-message file is absent so there is no information describing how to configure fetchmail in system-wide mode or individual user mode. These are unique run modes to freebsd and are not covered in the fetchmail manual. The port pkg-message file should be created with instructions about how to configure it. Users are supposed to read the 'fetchmail' rc script (this convention is also used by other ports). You are right in that a short pkg-message that contains a pointer to that file is usefull for novice fetchmail users on FreeBSD. Did you have a look at the /usr/local/etc/fetchmailrc file? Do you have suggestions how to improve the documentation provided at the beginning of that file? Please update your ports tree and rebuild the port -- I will commit some small improvements now. Before in 4.11 through 5.4 I started fetchmail using /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fetchmail.sh and /root/,fetchmailrc and had root admin control of fetchmail. How do I achieve admin control now that fetchmail has been converted to use rc.conf fetchmail_enable=YES to start at boot time? Simply copy your previous fetchmail config file (presumably /root/.fetchmailrc) to /usr/local/etc/fetchmailrc), put fetchmail_enable=YES into /etc/rc.conf and issue /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fetchmail start. Btw.: Are you sure that you really need one system wide daemon? In my experience, a per-user daemon makes things a lot easier for the administrator since users can update their email configuration on their own. If you still have problems, please give me as much detail as you can. -- Best regards / Viele Grüße, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Simon Barner[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0XTI0x7lJo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: enable fetchmail system-wide mode
On Wednesday May 30, 2007 at 06:51:26 (PM) Bob wrote: I want to run fetchmail enabled for system wide mode. The command line cmd fetchmail -q issued from user root gets meaningless error msg. Reviewing /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fetchmail has comments talking about system wide mode running under user fetchmail. How does the system admin control fetchmail when user fetchmail needs password to logon and no where is password given during install. Also /usr/local/etc/fetchmailrc which is suppose to be the config file is empty. Even fetchmailrc.sample is empty. The port pkg-message file is absent so there is no information describing how to configure fetchmail in system-wide mode or individual user mode. These are unique run modes to freebsd and are not covered in the fetchmail manual. The port pkg-message file should be created with instructions about how to configure it. Before in 4.11 through 5.4 I started fetchmail using /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fetchmail.sh and /root/,fetchmailrc and had root admin control of fetchmail. How do I achieve admin control now that fetchmail has been converted to use rc.conf fetchmail_enable=YES to start at boot time? Did you try 'man fetchmail'? That should give you the required configuration information. As you wrote, having the proper notation in the '/etc/rc.conf' file will start 'fetchmail' upon boot-up, assuming that there does exist a properly configured 'fetchmailrc' file. You might also want to investigate the '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/fetchmail' file. I had to slightly modify it to work the way I wanted on my system. I would suggest that you do that 'AFTER' you have gotten it to relatively the way you want it to. -- Gerard I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. Frank Sinatra ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
