Re: [rt-users] mail solutions

[Landon Stewart]

> On May 26, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Terry O'Leary  wrote:
> 
> We have 14 different queues so using fetchmail to manage the email accounts 
> is useful for us. But that is where the problem lies as well I think. 
> Fetchmail doesn’t seem to be deleting the email from the inbox consistently. 
> Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I have gone the route of working 
> with the Network Engineering team to see if there were any configuration 
> changes or updates to exchange that may have done but came up with nothing. 
> The emails get to their respective inboxes, then fetchmail (I have running in 
> a crontab every minute) executes to pick up and send any emails to RT 
> mailgate.:
> 
> Here is an example:
> 
> poll imap.corp.test.com  proto IMAP and port 143:
> 
> # Team Queue
> username team  password 123456 mda 
> "/opt/rt4/bin/rt-mailgate --url http://test  --queue 'Team 
> Requests' --action correspond"
> username team-comments password 123456 mda "/opt/rt4/bin/rt-mailgate --url 
> http://test  --queue 'Team Requests' --action comment"
> 
> I know this isn’t a fetchmail forum, but any input would be gladly taken.

Just in case you are - I wouldn't cron it since you'll get duplicate processes 
checking the mailbox at the same time which would account for duplicates.  If 
you have to cron it though use flock to make sure more than one is never 
running at the same time:

/usr/bin/flock -n /tmp/fetchmail.lockfile /path/to/fetchmail -blahblahblah

I'm assuming you start fetchmail as a daemon instead of cron'd though.  If you 
are running fetchmail as a daemon make sure you use --uidl when starting the 
daemon in the /etc/init.d (or equivalent) something like this:

/usr/bin/fetchmail --uidl -f /etc/fetchmail.conf

-U | --uidl

   (Keyword: uidl)
   Force UIDL use (effective only with POP3).  Force client-side tracking 
of  'newness'  of  messages
   (UIDL  stands  for  "unique  ID  listing"  and is described in RFC1939). 
 Use with 'keep' to use a
   mailbox as a baby news drop for a group of users. The fact  that  seen  
messages  are  skipped  is
   logged,  unless  error  logging  is  done  through syslog while running 
in daemon mode.  Note that
   fetchmail may automatically enable this option depending on upstream  
server  capabilities.   Note
   also  that  this option may be removed and forced enabled in a future 
fetchmail version. See also:
   —idfile.


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Re: [rt-users] mail solutions

[Todd Wade]

On 5/26/15 2:18 PM, Terry O'Leary wrote:

We have 14 different queues so using fetchmail to manage the email
accounts is useful for us. But that is where the problem lies as well I
think. Fetchmail doesn’t seem to be deleting the email from the inbox
consistently... (I have running in a crontab every minute) executes to
pick up and send any emails to RT mailgate.:


I wonder if you're just running it to frequently? Sounds like it may be 
too much for fetchmail to churn through in 60 seconds, so it fires up 
again before its done.


Is it critical you have fetchmail running once a minute? I'd try once 
every 5 minutes, or wrap the call to fetchmail in something that checks 
if it is already running before running it again.

Re: [rt-users] mail solutions

[k...@rice.edu]

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 06:18:34PM +, Terry O'Leary wrote:
> We have 14 different queues so using fetchmail to manage the email accounts 
> is useful for us. But that is where the problem lies as well I think. 
> Fetchmail doesn’t seem to be deleting the email from the inbox consistently. 
> Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I have gone the route of working 
> with the Network Engineering team to see if there were any configuration 
> changes or updates to exchange that may have done but came up with nothing. 
> The emails get to their respective inboxes, then fetchmail (I have running in 
> a crontab every minute) executes to pick up and send any emails to RT 
> mailgate.:
> 
> Here is an example:
> 
> poll imap.corp.test.com proto IMAP and port 143:
> 
> # Team Queue
> username team  password 123456 mda 
> "/opt/rt4/bin/rt-mailgate --url http://test --queue 'Team Requests' --action 
> correspond"
> username team-comments password 123456 mda "/opt/rt4/bin/rt-mailgate --url 
> http://test --queue 'Team Requests' --action comment"
> 
> I know this isn’t a fetchmail forum, but any input would be gladly taken.
> 
> Thank You,
> Terry O'Leary
> 

Hi Terry,

What kind of locking are you using to prevent simultaneous access to a folder
from multiple fetchmail instances? 1 minute granularity in your crontab may
allow that to happen, then the second instance would re-process the messages
already processed before they were deleted.

Regards,
Ken

Re: [rt-users] mail solutions

[Jeremy Mates]

* Terry O'Leary 
> username team  password 123456 mda 
> "/opt/rt4/bin/rt-mailgate --url http://test --queue 'Team Requests' --action 
> correspond"
> username team-comments password 123456 mda "/opt/rt4/bin/rt-mailgate --url 
> http://test --queue 'Team Requests' --action comment"

My fetchmailrc usually end up with a 'nokeep' to delete stuff.

Re: [rt-users] mail solutions

[Terry O'Leary]

We have 14 different queues so using fetchmail to manage the email accounts is 
useful for us. But that is where the problem lies as well I think. Fetchmail 
doesn’t seem to be deleting the email from the inbox consistently. Sometimes it 
works and sometimes it doesn’t. I have gone the route of working with the 
Network Engineering team to see if there were any configuration changes or 
updates to exchange that may have done but came up with nothing. The emails get 
to their respective inboxes, then fetchmail (I have running in a crontab every 
minute) executes to pick up and send any emails to RT mailgate.:

Here is an example:

poll imap.corp.test.com proto IMAP and port 143:

# Team Queue
username team  password 123456 mda 
"/opt/rt4/bin/rt-mailgate --url http://test --queue 'Team Requests' --action 
correspond"
username team-comments password 123456 mda "/opt/rt4/bin/rt-mailgate --url 
http://test --queue 'Team Requests' --action comment"

I know this isn’t a fetchmail forum, but any input would be gladly taken.

Thank You,
Terry O'Leary

From: Jaye Mathisen [mailto:mr...@lilpantry.com]
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2015 11:15 PM
To: Terry O'Leary; rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
Subject: RE: [rt-users] mail solutions

Is there some reason you can’t just have your exchange server forward the mail 
to RT and process it with rt-mailgate?

In general though, I would expect that if you’re sucking the mail from a pop3 
mailbox, and the mail is getting deleted from exchange it shouldn’t be an issue 
with fetchmail.

I guess the other question would be is if the mail messages are getting 
duplicated somehow (like via 2 different addresses) in the exchange mailbox, so 
fetchmail is pulling down 2 copies of the message because there’s 2 copies in 
the mailbox and dumping each into rt?



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 On Behalf Of Terry O'Leary
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2015 7:24 PM
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Subject: [rt-users] mail solutions

Hello,

My company has been using RT for years and has gone through a few upgrades. We 
are currently up to version 4.0.12. We also use fetchmail as our mailing 
solution to retrieve emails from our exchange 2010 servers. We have been 
encountering multiple ticket creation issues when email is only sent through 
fetchmail to RT. When creating tickets internally through RT there are no 
errors or multiple ticket issues. I am looking into a new mailing solution 
(Like getmail, etc) and wanted to get feedback from you all on what types of 
mailing solutions you are using. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thank You,
Terry O’Leary| Software Release Engineering Manager | IT Department | World 
Travel Holdings | t 617-587-6268 -(internal X76268) | c 339-927-5843 | f 
617-587-6359
100 Fordham Rd. Building C | Wilmington | MA | 01887 | AIM: Teeo75 | 
www.WorldTravelHoldings.com<http://www.WorldTravelHoldings.com>
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Re: [rt-users] mail solutions

[Jaye Mathisen]

Is there some reason you can’t just have your exchange server forward the
mail to RT and process it with rt-mailgate?



In general though, I would expect that if you’re sucking the mail from a
pop3 mailbox, and the mail is getting deleted from exchange it shouldn’t be
an issue with fetchmail.



I guess the other question would be is if the mail messages are getting
duplicated somehow (like via 2 different addresses) in the exchange
mailbox, so fetchmail is pulling down 2 copies of the message because
there’s 2 copies in the mailbox and dumping each into rt?







*From:* rt-users [mailto:rt-users-boun...@lists.bestpractical.com] *On
Behalf Of *Terry O'Leary
*Sent:* Monday, May 25, 2015 7:24 PM
*To:* rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
*Subject:* [rt-users] mail solutions



Hello,



My company has been using RT for years and has gone through a few upgrades.
We are currently up to version 4.0.12. We also use fetchmail as our mailing
solution to retrieve emails from our exchange 2010 servers. We have been
encountering multiple ticket creation issues when email is only sent
through fetchmail to RT. When creating tickets internally through RT there
are no errors or multiple ticket issues. I am looking into a new mailing
solution (Like getmail, etc) and wanted to get feedback from you all on
what types of mailing solutions you are using. Any suggestions are
appreciated.



*Thank You,*

*Terry O’Leary| *Software Release Engineering Manager *|* IT
Department *| *World
Travel Holdings *|* *t* 617-587-6268 -(internal X76268) *| c* 339-927-5843*
| f* 617-587-6359
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[rt-users] mail solutions

[Terry O'Leary]

Hello,

My company has been using RT for years and has gone through a few upgrades. We 
are currently up to version 4.0.12. We also use fetchmail as our mailing 
solution to retrieve emails from our exchange 2010 servers. We have been 
encountering multiple ticket creation issues when email is only sent through 
fetchmail to RT. When creating tickets internally through RT there are no 
errors or multiple ticket issues. I am looking into a new mailing solution 
(Like getmail, etc) and wanted to get feedback from you all on what types of 
mailing solutions you are using. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thank You,
Terry O'Leary| Software Release Engineering Manager | IT Department | World 
Travel Holdings | t 617-587-6268 -(internal X76268) | c 339-927-5843 | f 
617-587-6359
100 Fordham Rd. Building C | Wilmington | MA | 01887 | AIM: Teeo75 | 
www.WorldTravelHoldings.com
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