fetchmail

[kkubasik]

ok, ive used qmail before, but our ISP is giving us a smtp, and since it is garunteed 100% uptime, that is cooler than mine (whitch is still pretty damn good, but no garuntees) basicaly, we have 250meg accounts with them, so I want to just POP the mail off, I've got fetchmail installed, and have it reterieveing mail to the correct users, but how can i view this mail, i dont see it in /spool/mail/qub333
or sumsuch, and can i make an IMAP acccount with this mail?

[kkubasik]

for some reason im getting this error, i cant quite seem to figure out where its coming from

fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying mail.comcast.net (protocol POP3) at Sun Sep 19 13:46:12 2004: poll started
fetchmail: POP3< +OK (sccrpxc02) Maillennium POP3/PROXY server #147
fetchmail: POP3> USER qub333
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK ready
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 4 16372
4 messages for qub333 at mail.comcast.net (16372 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 4755
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
reading message qub333@mail.comcast.net:1 of 4 (4755 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< Message from yahoo.com.
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.comcast.net
fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying mail.comcast.net (protocol POP3) at Sun Sep 19 13:46:18 2004: poll completed
fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
fetchmail: normal termination, status 10

[sarumont]

Can you post your polling lines from /etc/fetchmailrc?

You pretty much have to have procmail installed to handle the mail after fetchmail gets it. I have this running on my local mailserver...fetchmail fetches the mail and hands it to procmail. Procmail sorts/filters and delivers it.

[kkubasik]

ok, the error does seem to be lack of a local delivery service, will procmail play well with a local IMAP? thats the end goal for all this, an IMAP so we don't worry about passing our allotments on the comcast servers.

[sarumont]

Yeah...my system runs like so:

POP3 (multiple accts.)->fetchmail->procmail->IMAP4-ssl

I have procmail deliver each users' mail to their home directories and IMAP4 serve it up. There's actually a good tut on how to do this on the gentoo wiki. It's the one entitled something like Setting up an Email System for the Home Network part II.

[kkubasik]

rightio, im on my way over, I was having some issues w/ procmail, but this tut will probably cover that.

[sarumont]

Actually...it's the one that's NOT part II that I used.

It doesn't help that much with procmail, but I've learned a bit about it here recently. Feel free to fire off some q's about it if you get'em.

[kkubasik]

actualy, I've found procmail to work quite well, got a secure IMAP running just dandy, and fetchmail works well, my only current problem is getting smtp services working well, it seems to work fine for fetchmail, but i was kinda hoping to point it all through the mailserver to the comcast smtp, but ill get that all at some point.

[sarumont]

As in using postfix/qmail etc. to relay it to your comcast smtp server?

I tried getting postfix to work via ssl, not forwarding. I had major problems with authentication, so I abandoned it for now.

I plan on going back and maybe trying qmail, but that's not my top priority atm.

[kkubasik]

really, i have to agree, while i think that it would be a nice security feature, to have all internet access proxied (everything else is), so ive got them running the Comcast smtp's now, idealy at some point a ssl connectin will be used to the local server, and none of the clients will have raw net access. (as most if not all are windows, i dont like them to get near the internet if at all possible)

Although there is a pecurlar action with Thunderbird, it won't view the folders that procmail has made on the IMAP, Evolution and Bloomba do, but no Thunderbird.....just an observation, a slightly irritating one, as this will force me to change mail-clients, but im poking around the prefs for a possible solution.