Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4417 mails)

["Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx>]

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.

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