Re: [LUG] Setting up Fetchmail

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Simon Waters wrote:
| Francesco Scaglioni wrote:
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| Does "ls -l $HOME/.fetchmailrc" show the file? This checks that
| /home/paul is the right place (sounds right, but you never know).
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| Do you have "fetchmailconf" installed? Might save a lot of pain.


OK.. my turn...

put the following in /etc/fetchmailrc (new file)

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set daemon 60
# Polls for mail every 60 seconds
set postmaster root
# Who to send bounces to
set logfile /var/log/fetchmail.log
# Err.. log file..

poll mail.clara.net proto pop3:
~        user "xxxxxxxxxx" pass xxxxxx to * here

# Change the * to a username to get all email sent to that user...

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Then put the following in /etc/init.d/fetchmail (new file)

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#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc &

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then


~  ln -s /etc/init.d/fetchmail /etc/rc[3 or 5].d/S99fetchmail


This will allow fetchmail to startup on system boot, I am guessing this
is what you want it to do... ?

Otherwise.. put the contents of the file (fetchmailrc) in to
$HOME/.fetchmailrc and run fetchmail as that user.. this will cause
fetchmail to poll every 60 seconds..

That should do that job, any problems mail the list back...


Neil Stone (man that uses fetchmail lots)
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