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Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: |
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> Le 21 juin à 00:42:33 Robert Persson <ireneshusband@××××××××.uk> écrit notamment: |
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> | I want to run fetchmail as a service and I am confused about how this works. I |
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> | simply want to have something that will quietly fetch and deliver mail to |
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> | maildirs to users' home directories, but that can also be disabled easily |
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> | when I need that bit of extra performance for something. |
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> To enable fetchmail as demon: |
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> # /etc/init.d/fetchmail start |
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> To have fetchmail start automatically at boot: |
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> # rc-update add fetchmail default |
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> To suspend fetchmail: |
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> # /etc/init.d/fetchmail stop |
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> | I assume that fetchmail will first look at /etc/fetchmailrc. Will it then look |
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> | at each user's $HOME/.fetchmailrc? |
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> Yes |
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> | If so, can I assume that it will deal with each user's .procmailrc suid |
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> | that user? |
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> Yes; have a look at the fetchmail manual (-mda command) |
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> regards |
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When I tried it, this didn't seem to work for me. I tried using an empty |
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/etc/fetchmailrc because I wanted fetchmail to go straight to the |
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~/.fetchmailrc's, but it complained that no server was specified. |
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I'm not panicked about this any more because I have decided to use the |
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relatively painless webmin to configure the ~/.fetchmailrc's and |
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schedule cron jobs. even though it isn't exactly what I wanted. That |
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said, if anyone knows what I should have done to get the fetchmail |
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service to use the ~/.fetchmailrc's rather than /etc/fetchmailrc I would |
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appreciate it. |
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Many thanks. |
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Robert |
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