YAST and Fetchmail configuration
Just a quick question about fetchmail configuration that is done as part of the Mail Transfer Agent conf. There doesn't seem to be many options that you can set. I am assuming that the fetchmail that it configures runs in daemon mode. Does anyone know which user it runs as? Or how often it checks for mail? I have a multidrop box that handles two domains (don't get into the cons of multidrop boxes, I have read the man page), and I am assuming that if I put * as local user it will pass everything through to postfix to handle through smtp. Given that I have set up postfix through the YAST configuration, it seems logical to get it to handle the fetchmail as well, but it doesn't look as if it has the flexability. What do other people do? Thanks, Tim
On 11/05/2003 07:06 AM, Tim Penhey wrote:
Just a quick question about fetchmail configuration that is done as part of the Mail Transfer Agent conf.
On which version?
There doesn't seem to be many options that you can set. I am assuming that the fetchmail that it configures runs in daemon mode. Does anyone know which user it runs as? Or how often it checks for mail?
I know I seem to remember setting it up manually, i.e. getting the fetchmail startup script from the docs, editting a bit as it seemed older than the present startup scheme (i.e I am using 8.2), setting it to use /etc/fetchmailrc, etc. It runs as root (/etc/fetchmailrc is 600 root.root). The time interval is set by the startup script.
I have a multidrop box that handles two domains (don't get into the cons of multidrop boxes, I have read the man page), and I am assuming that if I put * as local user it will pass everything through to postfix to handle through smtp.
Given that I have set up postfix through the YAST configuration, it seems logical to get it to handle the fetchmail as well, but it doesn't look as if it has the flexability. What do other people do?
Unless you give fetchmail an explicit command to use another MDA, it will use your postfix. It works well here. BTW, you can only (at least in 8.2) set up a basic set and parameters for fetchmail via Yast. You need toread the docs, but you can add options manually to /etc/fetchmailrc. One I needed to add to a few is ssl. HTH. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
Joe Morris wrote:
Just a quick question about fetchmail configuration that is done as part of the Mail Transfer Agent conf.
On which version?
Still SuSE 8.2 [snip]
I know I seem to remember setting it up manually, i.e. getting the fetchmail startup script from the docs, editting a bit as it seemed older than the present startup scheme (i.e I am using 8.2), setting it to use /etc/fetchmailrc, etc. It runs as root (/etc/fetchmailrc is 600 root.root). The time interval is set by the startup script.
Unless you give fetchmail an explicit command to use another MDA, it will use your postfix. It works well here. BTW, you can only (at least in 8.2) set up a basic set and parameters for fetchmail via Yast. You need toread the docs, but you can add options manually to /etc/fetchmailrc. One I needed to add to a few is ssl. HTH.
My /etc/fetchmailrc file only has a comment in it at the moment, which is OK since I haven't set it up yet. You don't happen to know where the startup script is? I had a look in /etc/rc.d dirs but there doesn't seem to be any fetchmail scripts. Thanks again, Tim
On 11/05/2003 03:33 PM, Tim Penhey wrote:
You don't happen to know where the startup script is? I had a look in /etc/rc.d dirs but there doesn't seem to be any fetchmail scripts.
/usr/share/doc/packages/fetchmail/README.SuSE -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 18:06, Tim Penhey wrote:
Just a quick question about fetchmail configuration that is done as part of the Mail Transfer Agent conf.
There doesn't seem to be many options that you can set. I am assuming that the fetchmail that it configures runs in daemon mode. Does anyone know which user it runs as? Or how often it checks for mail?
Tim, Try running fetchmailconf. It will create a ~/.fetchmailrc configuration file for you that might be helpful if only for illustration purposes. Mark -- ______________________________________________________________ L. Mark Stone President Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street, 5th Floor Portland, ME 04107 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Email: LMStone@RNoME.com Web: http://www.RNoME.com
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