Re: [SLE] What is the proper tool for sharing a POP mailbox ?
The 03.02.27 at 17:26, chiefoldmist wrote:
And what's in your procmailrc now?
MAILDIR = /var/spool/mail LOGFILE=/var/log/proclog VERBOSE=no
:0 * ^TOpip@ /var/mail/pip
I would use - but I'm very unsure if it would work:
VERBOSE=on
:0 * ^TOpip /var/mail/pip
However, there is one more issue, an important one. What MTA are you using?
From some logs you posted, I infer you are using postfix. I also understand that that procmail file is "/etc/procmailrc", and that fetchmail is called by root. Is that so? Then, I'm afraid this will simply not work: When using procmail, postfix will not be able to send mail to the root, period. See the postfix faq for the proper explanation.
Root mail has got to be forwarded to some other user, and this one can use procmail rules to forward to somebody else.
What you say may very well be true, but he should be able to get it to work with what he has in his procmailrc file. He's not delivering to root. I run fetchmail, procmail, (and used to run postfix) the same way he is trying to run it and it has worked for several years.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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The 03.02.28 at 08:07, Bruce Marshall wrote:
What you say may very well be true, but he should be able to get it to work with what he has in his procmailrc file. He's not delivering to root.
Yes, he is. If I read correctly - it is a long thread, and it is difficult to know exactly what and how he is using it - he was using fetchmail as root, and the procmail file was /etc/fetchmailrc. When using postfix (as shipped) with procmail, the "/etc/fetchmailrc" file is simply ignored, as is "/root/.procmailrc". If he is using fetchmail as a normal user, the the rules should be in "/home/user/.procmailrc" If he is bypassing postfix somehow, then this does not apply, of course - but I saw a mention of postfix in the posted logs.
I run fetchmail, procmail, (and used to run postfix) the same way he is trying to run it and it has worked for several years.
Me too; but before I was using sendmail, and when I changed to postfix with suse 8.1, procmail went nuts and root stopped receiving mail. It is documented... My guess, anyway, is that his postfix is missconfigured somewhere. The error log he gets is way strange. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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