Hi All I hope someone can help. What I want to to is download my emails from 2 emails accounts I have from 2 diffirent ISP's and from my hotmail account into a mailbox on my ISPconfig server that I have installed. Many thanks Tazz
Try something like this in /etc/fetchmailrc: Code: # This file must be chmod 0600, owner fetchmail # Daemon configuration # These two are set in /etc/default/fetchmail #set daemon 300 # Pool every 5 minutes #set syslog # log through syslog facility set postmaster root set no bouncemail # avoid loss on 4xx errors # on the other hand, 5xx errors get # more dangerous... ########################################################################## # Hosts to pool ########################################################################## # Defaults =============================================================== # Set antispam to -1, since it is far safer to use that together with # no bouncemail defaults: timeout 300 antispam -1 batchlimit 100 poll <REMOTE_SERVER> protocol POP3 user "<REMOTE_USER>" there with password "<REMOTE_PASSWORT>" is <USERNAME> here Replace the strings in <> appropriately and add one poll line for every mailbox you want to fetch from remote servers.
Excuse my ignorance but I looked into this on Dapper (Ubuntu 6.06) and could not find the /etc/fetchmailrc file. There is however a /etc/default/fetchmail file with the content: # This file will be used to declare some vars for fetchmail # Declare here if we want to start fetchmail. 'yes' or 'no' START_DAEMON=no Do I manually have to create the /etc/fetchmailrc file? Also, I noticed that the user "fetchmail" does not exist on my machine; is it an absolute requirement that this user owns the file or can I have user root own it (and chmod the file to 0600 as suggested).
FYI: the fetchmail.rc is not on fedora distribution, i had to create a new file and run fetchmail -f filename..
Apologies for the late response, but here's the output: /etc/init.d/fetchmail /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/fetchmail /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.workstation/fetchmail /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/fetchmail /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail /etc/rc0.d/K15fetchmail /etc/rc1.d/K15fetchmail /etc/rc2.d/S99fetchmail /etc/rc3.d/S99fetchmail /etc/rc4.d/S99fetchmail /etc/rc5.d/S99fetchmail /etc/rc6.d/K15fetchmail /etc/resolvconf/update-libc.d/fetchmail /usr/bin/fetchmail /usr/share/doc/fetchmail /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/domino /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/fetchmaildistrib /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/fetchmail-mode.el.gz /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/fetchmailnochda.pl.gz /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/fetchsetup /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/getmail /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/gotmail /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/gotmail.awk /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/gotmail.conf /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/gotmail.html.awk /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/login /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/logout /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/maildaemon /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/mailqueue.pl.gz /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/multidrop.gz /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/novell /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/poptest /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/preauth-harness /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/README.Debian /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/README.getmail /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/README.gz /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/runfetchmail.gz /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/toprocmail /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/contrib/zsh-completion /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/copyright /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/design-notes.html /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/examples /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/examples/fetchmailrc.example /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.html /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/fetchmail-features.html /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/NEWS.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/NOTES.gz /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/OLDNEWS.gz /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/README /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/README.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/README.SSL.gz /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/todo.html /usr/share/man/man1/fetchmail.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/fetchmailrc.1.gz /usr/share/vim/vim64/syntax/fetchmail.vim /var/cache/apt/archives/fetchmail_6.3.2-2ubuntu2_i386.deb /var/lib/dpkg/info/fetchmail.conffiles /var/lib/dpkg/info/fetchmail.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/fetchmail.md5sums /var/lib/dpkg/info/fetchmail.postinst /var/lib/dpkg/info/fetchmail.postrm /var/lib/dpkg/info/fetchmail.preinst /var/lib/dpkg/info/fetchmail.prerm /var/lib/fetchmail
#!/bin/sh # # Fetchmail init script # Latest change: Do Jun 23 16:59:08 CEST 2005 # # A fetchmailrc file containg hosts and passwords for all local users should be # placed in /etc/fetchmailrc. Remember to make the /etc/fetchmailrc mode 600 # to avoid disclosing the users' passwords. # # This script will NOT start or stop fetchmail if the /etc/fetchmailrc file # does not exist. # set -e if [ ! -e /etc/fetchmailrc ]; then exit 0 fi test -f /etc/default/fetchmail || exit 0 . /etc/default/fetchmail if [ ! "x$START_DAEMON" = "xyes" ]; then echo "Edit /etc/default/fetchmail to start fetchmail" exit 0 fi # Defaults PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DAEMON=/usr/bin/fetchmail USER=fetchmail CONFFILE=/etc/fetchmailrc OPTIONS="-f $CONFFILE" PIDFILE="`getent passwd $USER | awk -F: '{ print $6 }'`/.fetchmail.pid" UIDL=/var/lib/fetchmail/.fetchmail-UIDL-cache test -f $DAEMON || exit 0 test -r $CONFFILE || exit 0 . /lib/lsb/init-functions if [ "$1" = "start" ]; then if [ ! -r $CONFFILE ] ; then echo "$CONFFILE not found." echo "can not start fetchmail daemon... consider disabling the script" exit 0 fi fi # sanity checks (saves on MY sanity ) if ! id $USER >/dev/null 2>&1; then if [ "$USER" = "fetchmail" ]; then # The fetchmail user might have been removed when the fetchmail-common # package is purged. We have to re-add it here so the system-wide # daemon will run. adduser --system --ingroup nogroup --home /var/lib/fetchmail \ --shell /bin/sh --disabled-password fetchmail >/dev/null 2>&1 || true # work around possible adduser bug, see #119366 [ -d /var/lib/fetchmail ] || mkdir -p /var/lib/fetchmail chmod 700 /var/lib/fetchmail chown -h -R fetchmail:nogroup /var/lib/fetchmail else log_failure_msg "$USER user does not exist!" exit 1 fi fi # add daemon option if user hasn't already specified it if ! grep -qs '^[[:space:]]*set[[:space:]]\+daemon[[:space:]]' "$CONFFILE"; then OPTIONS="$OPTIONS -d 300" fi # add syslog option unless user specified "set no syslog". if ! grep -qs '^[[:space:]]*set[[:space:]]\+no[[:space:]]\+syslog' "$CONFFILE"; then OPTIONS="$OPTIONS --syslog" fi # support for ephemeral /var/run #if [ "${PIDFILE%/*}" = "/var/run/fetchmail" ] && [ ! -d ${PIDFILE%/*} ]; then # mkdir /var/run/fetchmail # chown -h $USER:nogroup /var/run/fetchmail # chmod 700 /var/run/fetchmail #fi # sanity check #if [ ! -d ${PIDFILE%/*} ]; then # echo "$0: directory ${PIDFILE%/*} does not exist!" # exit 1 #fi # If the user is going to use a UIDL cache, try to find a better place for the # UIDL cache than root's homedir. Also create $UIDL if it doesn't exist, # because the daemon won't have the permission. if ! grep -qs idfile "$CONFFILE" && [ -d /var/lib/fetchmail ]; then OPTIONS="$OPTIONS -i $UIDL" touch $UIDL chown -h $USER $UIDL chmod 0600 $UIDL fi # Makes sure certain files/directories have the proper owner if [ "`stat -c '%U %a' $CONFFILE 2>/dev/null`" != "$USER 600" ]; then chown -h $USER $CONFFILE chmod -f 0600 $CONFFILE fi case "$1" in start) if test -e $PIDFILE ; then pid=`cat $PIDFILE | sed -e 's/\s.*//'` if kill -0 $pid ; then echo "Fetchmail already running with pid $pid (or stale pidfile)." exit 0 fi fi log_begin_msg "Starting mail retrieval agent..." start-stop-daemon -S -o -q -p $PIDFILE -x $DAEMON -u $USER -a /bin/su -- -c "$DAEMON $OPTIONS" $USER log_end_msg $? ;; stop) if ! test -e $PIDFILE ; then echo "Pidfile not found! Is fetchmail running?" exit 0 fi log_begin_msg "Stopping mail retrieval agent..." start-stop-daemon -K -o -q -p $PIDFILE -x $DAEMON -u $USER log_end_msg $? ;; force-reload|restart) sh $0 stop sh $0 start ;; try-restart) if start-stop-daemon -S -t -q -p $PIDFILE -x $DAEMON -u $USER >/dev/null; then exit 0 fi $0 restart ;; awaken) log_begin_msg "Awakening mail retrieval agent..." if [ -r $PIDFILE ]; then su -c $DAEMON $USER <&- >/dev/null 2>&1 log_end_msg 0 exit 0 else log_end_msg 1 exit 1 fi ;; debug-run) log_success_msg "Initiating debug run of system-wide fetchmail service..." 1>&2 log_success_msg "script will be run in debug mode, all output to forced to" 1>&2 log_success_msg "stdout. This is not enough to debug failures that only" 1>&2 log_success_msg "happen in daemon mode." 1>&2 log_success_msg "You might want to direct output to a file, and tail -f it." 1>&2 if [ "$2" = "strace" ]; then log_success_msg "(running debug mode under strace. See strace(1) for options)" 1>&2 log_success_msg "WARNING: strace output may contain security-sensitive info, such as" 1>&2 log_success_msg "passwords; please clobber them before sending the strace file to a" 1>&2 log_success_msg "public bug tracking system, such as Debian's." 1>&2 fi log_success_msg "Stopping the service..." 1>&2 "$0" stop log_success_msg "exit status of service stop was: $?" log_success_msg "RUNUSER is $USER" log_success_msg "OPTIONS would be $OPTIONS" log_success_msg "Starting service in nodetach mode, hit ^C (SIGINT/intr) to finish run..." 1>&2 if [ "$2" = "strace" ] ; then shift shift [ $# -ne 0 ] && log_success_msg "(strace options are: -tt $@)" 1>&2 su -c "/usr/bin/strace -tt $@ $DAEMON $OPTIONS --nosyslog --nodetach -v -v" $USER <&- 2>&1 && true else su -c "$DAEMON $OPTIONS --nosyslog --nodetach -v -v" $USER <&- 2>&1 && true fi log_success_msg "End of service run. Exit status was: $?" exit 0 ;; *) log_success_msg "Usage: /etc/init.d/fetchmail {start|stop|restart|force-reload|awaken|debug-run}" log_success_msg " start - starts system-wide fetchmail service" log_success_msg " stop - stops system-wide fetchmail service" log_success_msg " restart, force-reload - starts a new system-wide fetchmail service" log_success_msg " awaken - tell system-wide fetchmail to start a poll cycle immediately" log_success_msg " debug-run [strace [strace options...]] - start a debug run of the" log_success_msg " system-wide fetchmail service, optionally running it under strace" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 # vim:ts=4:sw=4:
