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[fetchmail-users] fetchmail multidrop problem

[jay s. <jay...@ya...>]

Hi Group,

I have two qmailtoaster server install on Fedora Core 2
old qmailtoaster version is 1.0.6
new qmailtoaster version is 1.2.9
I am trying to fetch mail on local server of Fedora core 2 fetchmail fetchmail-6.2.5-2
I also tested the same things with Centos 4.4 along with fetchmail fetchmail-6.2.5-6.el4.5

Old qmailtoaster working fine with fetchmail multidrop
But new qmailtoaster giving some problem when using
fetchmail multidrop option.
Both server giving different header. Header is pasted below.

I have ex...@ab... id in which fo...@ab... and
ba...@ab... are two alias id configure.
When i send mail from Out side to this to both user.
now when i see the header of foo's mail header it
shows Delivered-To: ex...@ab... alog with
respecting id.
that is Delivered-To: fo...@ab....
how can i remove Delivered-To: ex...@ab... line
from header while downloading

Because of this foo and bar getting multliple mails in new server.

I am using following fetchmailrc file
set postmaster "pos...@ab..."
set bouncemail
set no spambounce

poll xx.xx.xx.xx with proto pop3 timeout 60  and options no dns uidl
envelope Delivered-To:

localdomains abc.com
user 'ex...@ab...' there with password 'secret' is * here options forcecr dropdelivered

To run Fetchmail i am using the following /sbin/getmail :--
fetchmail -v -v --showdots -e 1 -Q abc.com- -f /root/.fetchmailrc >> /var/log/fetchmail.log &

I have tryed envelop header option for new server but that not working with with new servermail header
My question is what should i put to get the mail for mutidrop box for new server so that mails will not get repeat.

##########################################
New server header.
#####################################

Return-Path: <mah...@ga...>
Delivered-To: ex...@ab...
Received: (qmail 19564 invoked by uid 89); 14 Mar 2007
07:47:30 -0000
Delivered-To: fo...@ab...
Received: (qmail 19554 invoked by uid 89); 14 Mar 2007
07:47:30 -0000
DomainKey-Status: good
Received: by simscan 1.2.0 ppid: 19530, pid: 19534, t:
2.8761s
     scanners: attach: 1.2.0 clamav:
0.88.4/m:40/d:2123 spam: 3.1.7
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7
(2006-10-05) on
     mail.abc.com
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=4.0
tests=BAYES_00,HTML_30_40,
     HTML_MESSAGE,HTML_SHORT_LENGTH,SARE_MSGID_LONG40
autolearn=no
     version=3.1.7
Received: from unknown (HELO an-out-0708.google.com)
(209.85.132.243)
     by mail.abc.com with SMTP; 14 Mar 2007 07:47:27
-0000
Received-SPF: pass (mail.abc.com: SPF record at
_spf.google.com designates 209.85.132.243 as permitted
sender)
Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id
b6so96165ana
     for <fo...@ab...>; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:46:54
-0700 (PDT)
DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed;
     d=gmail.com; s=beta;

h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type;

b=VM6B3EUF55YGc0hD8rttVCj3xwwAjKNYY4P2F1spZ8an+GuLd0sdXTV1dfeKTFg5IlY/7ywbJOM+BIeGi45InHevbTqPQ5mryRyY6076CgAI1BpWPe3tG22DIZU0MnNDHHgoFlFiRNK4b+JbFl2ln/4sm+/qqe/AhGhBwFs1fk0=
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
     d=gmail.com; s=beta;

h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type;

b=XnRk+FjLVJcKMXEQoM/ZgraRQ4UykVgV2B/Nt9fHlC0J11EzJNkPXGw0cuHYqX6zF6R27GVgHscUW0JMEleAWoXaXhyabhhv0TkTcaqDLmp5DPRz6TfVxo6TBpnKc9DxMYK4QCCB39HBQQh9Y7cM8OfZBsM7v8a/EHEYg6H3rzg=
Received: by 10.100.44.13 with SMTP id
r13mr1486586anr.1173858414344;
     Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:46:54 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.100.7.2 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Mar 2007
00:46:54 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<1f2...@ma...>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:16:54 +0530
From: "Mahesh Wadekar" <mah...@ga...>
To: fo...@ab..., ba...@ab...
Subject: test 9
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
     boundary="----=_Part_33866_9804086.1173858414323"


############################################
Old Server mail header.
##########################################

Return-Path: <mah...@gm...>
Delivered-To: ipc...@xy...
Received: (qmail 4189 invoked by uid 501); 14 Mar 2007
08:01:48 -0000
Received: from mah...@gm... by
ns2.brisk-india.com by uid 107 with qmail-scanner-1.22

 (clamdscan: 0.65. f-prot: 4.4.7/3.14.13.
Clear:RC:1(192.168.1.1):.
 Processed in 0.430508 secs); 14 Mar 2007 08:01:48
-0000
X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: mah...@gm... via
Processed in 0.430508 secs)
Received: from unknown (HELO ns1.pqr.com)
(192.168.1.1)
  by 192.168.1.3 with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 14
Mar 2007 08:01:47 -0000
Received: from an-out-0708.google.com
(an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.241])
        by ns1.pqr.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id
l2E7jW0o031240
        for <fo...@xy...>; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:15:33 +0530
Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id
d30so92962and
        for <fo...@xy...>; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:48:50
-0700 (PDT)
DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed;
        d=gmail.com; s=beta;

h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type;

b=SlL0Py3R6fFqcj+9zRm/6B3pXBE/rhgcavULMV2QBkptzuKqamb1qNmG09Snm/xBp26wUEJRiagXg7NztSkum5MQa//fM7iMnetqJH6OsZYuPxkfFSTjTl257M8Wp/3cjsAyM5AYTePz89LHupwXWrjgBhomQYoZKi5d5sxIhIk=
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
        d=gmail.com; s=beta;
h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type;

b=hcvoH6oC2EIE50iMGd1PptQGXiTPC7LnpQFozW175p7rGf8H9V78IvHeavunRM0LuJCdCBKtyxznxAsOIXmMWa7JDVFnb46Rgz1QZO786xFaKDYdBb7+PAvMc/VBJ5Ue3mvfIfAA5AN1kq4+kwvQ3rzP0svkt/6LB4QNaDG7+KI=
Received: by 10.100.144.11 with SMTP id
r11mr1572276and.1173858530649;
        Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:48:50 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.100.7.2 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Mar 2007
00:48:50 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<1f2...@ma...>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:18:50 +0530
From: "Mahesh Wadekar" <mah...@gm...>
To: fo...@xy..., ba...@xy...
Subject: test 10
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="----=_Part_33874_31836033.1173858530628"
X-yoursite-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the
ISP for more information
X-yoursite-MailScanner: Found to be clean
X-yoursite-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam,
SpamAssassin (score=-0.013,
required 4, BAYES_00 -2.60, HTML_30_40 0.37,
HTML_MESSAGE 0.00,
        HTML_SHORT_LENGTH 1.57, SARE_MSGID_LONG40 0.64)
X-MailScanner-From: mah...@gm...


------=_Part_33874_31836033.1173858530628
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1;
format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

test 10

------=_Part_33874_31836033.1173858530628
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

test 10<br>

------=_Part_33874_31836033.1173858530628--


Plz help me
Thanks & Regard's
Jayesh


 
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Re: [fetchmail-users] Changing user configuration to mbox, instead of Maildir, format

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Francis Giannaros schrieb am 2007-03-11:

> Hi guys,
> 
> On my local machine (openSUSE) I've got fetchmail up-and-running pretty well; 
> system, POP3 etc mail are sent directly into my mbox.
> 
> On a server (Ubuntu, where I don't have root access) it appears that the 
> default settings for all mail are Maildir. I really need to have them in mbox 
> format; is there any way I change the configuration for this in fetchmail, so 
> I can 'force' it to go into a particular mbox, as mbox format.
> 
> I've already tried setting DEFAULT in ~/.procmailrc, but it doesn't seem to 
> respect that.
> 
> Any ideas?

What does fetchmail have to do with the server? Does the server use
procmail at all?

-- 
Matthias Andree

Re: [fetchmail-users] injecting message and header rewrite

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Payal Rathod schrieb am 2007-03-08:

> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 07:16:02AM +0000, Rob MacGregor wrote:
> > On 3/6/07, Payal Rathod <pay...@sc...> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I have read the docs and faq but am quite confused with "header rewrite"
> > > option. I want to download mails from server X (sendmail) for my domain
> > > example.com, by fetchmail and inject in my localhost (qmail) - clean it
> > > for viruses and spam and forward it to server Y (which can be anything).
> > > qmail will route the messages through control/smtproutes files. What are
> > > the options I require for fetchmail, do I need to play with headers?
> > > Server Y is not in my control (it may be exchange server or MDaemon) and
> > > is set to receive mails for example.com
> > 
> > "It depends" - there is far too little real information to be certain.
> >  However, you shouldn't *have* to rewrite the headers.  Certainly the
> > approach you've outlined is how I use fetchmail and I don't rewrite
> > headers.
> 
> It is not working. My local qmail's box is showing that when I am using 
> fetchmail to download mails from my remote server and injecting it in my 
> local SMTP, it is rewritting my recipent from pa...@ex... to 
> payal@localhost
> I am simple running fetchmail as,
> fetchmail -v -f /path/to/rcfile

Well, ...

> Any ideas on what is wrong? The rc file is just a simple 2 line test 
> file like below,
> poll domain with proto pop3, nodns :
> user payal with pass word to payal here ......

...you aren't forwarding to server Y :-)

There are several options to change behavior, not the least of which
one of the --smtp options.

-- 
Matthias 'qmail ought to be replaced by something fresh' Andree

Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail - resent mails

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

Please, no HTML emails.

On 3/11/07, Sylvain Le Torrec <syl...@ad...> wrote:
>
> I'm using fetchmail 6.2.4 (I know I have to upgrade it) with Qmail. They are
> installed on mandrake 9.2.

Time for that upgrade :)  Even if you ignore the security issues that
have been fixed, it helps ensure that you're not running into
something that's already been fixed.

> I have 3 problems with my fetchmail (but I think it's the same, fetchmail
> doesn't read the right header), see 3 examples:

We really need to see a sample header that has this problem, and the
rest of the information the FAQ asks for
(http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3).  Without the logs
we're only guessing.

> 1 – If someone (out of my network) send a mail to us...@my... +
> us...@An....
>
> Fetchmail sent this mail to Qmail.
> User1 receive the mail.
> Qmail re-treat this mail and sent it to user2.

Could be either down to the fetchmail or qmail config.

> 2 – Sometimes I can see "undisclosed-recipients" in the recipient field in a
> mail in ac...@do...
>
>       Fetchmail doesn't know what to do, so it's blocked.

Sounds like your fetchmail config is wrong.

> 3 – Someone send a mail from acc...@do... to :  us...@my... +
> acc...@do... (same domain but different account).
>
>       Each recipient will receive 2 same mails.

Sounds similar to (1).

> fetchmailrc :
>
> defaults
> set no bouncemail
>
> poll domain.mydomain.org protocol POP3
>   localdomains mydomain
>   tracepolls
>   #no envelope
>   #envelope "X-Envelope-To:"
>   envelope "Delivered-To:"
>   #qvirtual "X-Envelope-To:"
>   qvirtual "Delivered-To:"
>   username login
>   password loginpassword
>   is *
>   fetchall
>   mda "sed 1,2d | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject"
>
> poll domain.com
>         proto pop3
>         user "exemple"
>         pass "*********"
>         is us...@my...
>         fetchall

In general it looks good, but we're missing all the information
that'll help us help you :)

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[fetchmail-users] Fetchmail - resent mails

[Sylvain Le T. <syl...@ad...>]

Hello,

 

First, sorry for my English, I’m French.

 

I’m using fetchmail 6.2.4 (I know I have to upgrade it) with Qmail. They are
installed on mandrake 9.2.

I receive all my mails in ac...@do...

 

MyNetwork – qmail (mydomain.org) – fetchmail –  ac...@do... 

 


I have 3 problems with my fetchmail (but I think it’s the same, fetchmail
doesn’t read the right header), see 3 examples:

 

1 – If someone (out of my network) send a mail to us...@my... +
us...@An.... 

Fetchmail sent this mail to Qmail. 

User1 receive the mail.

Qmail re-treat this mail and sent it to user2. 

So if I receive a mail with an attachment piece (3mo) to 9 users (with 1
user of my network). Qmail will sent 8 mails * 3mo! 

I don’t know why my Qmail treat again those mails. Does Fetchmail gives
wrong informations to Qmail ?

 

2 – Sometimes I can see “undisclosed-recipients” in the recipient field in a
mail in ac...@do...

      Fetchmail doesn’t know what to do, so it’s blocked.

      What can I do to make fetchmail read the right header than the “To” of
the mail.

      I try to use “X-envelope-to:” in fetchmailrc, but I still have the
problem

 

3 – Someone send a mail from acc...@do... to :  us...@my... +
acc...@do... (same domain but different account).

      Each recipient will receive 2 same mails.

      So if someone send a mail to 6 users (with just 1 user of my network
and just 1 user of domain.com + 4 other domains), each recipient will
receive 6 mails.

     Maybe it’s the same problem than part 2. Fetchmail doesn’t read the
right header. 

     

So, Fetchmail doesn’t read the header which concern mydomain but all
recipients. So it gives bad information to Qmail which treat again those
mails. 

 

---------------------------------------------------------------

In my fetchmailrc we add the line because

mda "sed 1,2d | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject"

At the beginning, if someone (out of my network) sends a mail to
us...@my..., user receives 2 mails. This line solves the problem.

 

fetchmailrc :

 

defaults

set no bouncemail

poll domain.mydomain.org protocol POP3

localdomains mydomain

tracepolls

#no envelope

#envelope "X-Envelope-To:"

envelope "Delivered-To:"

#qvirtual "X-Envelope-To:"

qvirtual "Delivered-To:"

username login

password loginpassword

is *

fetchall

mda "sed 1,2d | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject"

 

poll domain.com

        proto pop3

        user "exemple"

        pass "*********"

        is us...@my...

        fetchall

----------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Thank you very much.

I hope that you can understand something of my message… it’s quite hard to
explain the problem

 

Sincerly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sylvain Le Torrec

Informaticien - Agence de Santé des îles

Wallis et Futuna

BP 4G MATA UTU 98600 WALLIS

Tel : (681) 72 07 25 ou Poste 349

 

 

Re: [fetchmail-users] downloading same message multiple times

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 3/11/07, Chris <cpo...@ea...> wrote:
>
> I've just upgraded to 6.3.7 this afternoon. I doubt whether I can get
> earthlinks smtp logs. The only other way I can think of getting any kind of
> logging is to run something like ethereal or tcpdump and see what is
> happening during the mail download, or is there another way?

No, the SMTP logs from *your* SMTP server :)

See the FAQ (http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3) for what
information you should be reporting.

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Re: [fetchmail-users] downloading same message multiple times

[Chris <cpo...@ea...>]

On Sunday 11 March 2007 2:26 pm, Rob MacGregor wrote:

> > I'm running fetchmail 6.2.5, mail is downloaded and piped through
> > procmail to the various folders.
>
> Well, it's hard to say what it is, though as always I'd advise
> upgrading to the current version of fetchmail.
>
> The problem is, you didn't include any logging from your SMTP server.
> From what little you provided it looks like fetchmail didn't actually
> download the email.
>
> If you can provide the SMTP logs then I may be able to say more.

I've just upgraded to 6.3.7 this afternoon. I doubt whether I can get 
earthlinks smtp logs. The only other way I can think of getting any kind of 
logging is to run something like ethereal or tcpdump and see what is 
happening during the mail download, or is there another way?

-- 
Chris
KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C

Re: [fetchmail-users] downloading same message multiple times

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 3/11/07, Chris <cpo...@ea...> wrote:
> I noticed yesterday the a couple of my hourly syslog snippets that are emailed
> to me were missing. Going to Earthlinks webmail page I saw that they were on
> the server but hadn't been downloaded. Looking at my syslog I saw this:
>
> Mar 10 18:31:10 localhost fetchmail[19764]: 1 message for cpollock at
> pop.earthlink.net (10350 octets).
> Mar 10 18:31:10 localhost fetchmail[19764]: reading message
> cpo...@po...:1 of 1 (10350 octets)
> Mar 10 18:31:12 localhost named[3842]: FORMERR resolving
> 'joysticktowers.com/A/IN': 66.218.71.205#53
> Mar 10 18:31:12 localhost named[3842]: FORMERR resolving
> 'joysticktowers.com/MX/IN': 66.218.71.205#53
<---SNIP--->
> Mar 10 18:32:23 localhost named[3842]: FORMERR resolving
> 'joysticktowers.com/MX/IN': 66.218.71.205#53
> Mar 10 18:33:20 localhost fetchmail[19764]: flushed
> Mar 10 18:33:20 localhost fetchmail[19764]: socket error while fetching from
> pop.earthlink.net
> Mar 10 18:33:20 localhost fetchmail[19764]: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
>
> I've removed the SA markup portion of the log. Going to my spam folder I saw
> multiple copies of the same message. The question is, what is causing this,
> is it:
>
> a) a fetchmail issue
> b) a dkim plugin issue
> c) a bind issue
> d) mangled headers causing this
> e) none of the above but an earthlink issue
>
> I'm running fetchmail 6.2.5, mail is downloaded and piped through procmail to
> the various folders.

Well, it's hard to say what it is, though as always I'd advise
upgrading to the current version of fetchmail.

The problem is, you didn't include any logging from your SMTP server.
From what little you provided it looks like fetchmail didn't actually
download the email.

If you can provide the SMTP logs then I may be able to say more.

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[fetchmail-users] downloading same message multiple times

[Chris <cpo...@ea...>]

I noticed yesterday the a couple of my hourly syslog snippets that are emailed 
to me were missing. Going to Earthlinks webmail page I saw that they were on 
the server but hadn't been downloaded. Looking at my syslog I saw this:

Mar 10 18:31:10 localhost fetchmail[19764]: 1 message for cpollock at 
pop.earthlink.net (10350 octets). 
Mar 10 18:31:10 localhost fetchmail[19764]: reading message 
cpo...@po...:1 of 1 (10350 octets) 
Mar 10 18:31:12 localhost named[3842]: FORMERR resolving 
'joysticktowers.com/A/IN': 66.218.71.205#53
Mar 10 18:31:12 localhost named[3842]: FORMERR resolving 
'joysticktowers.com/MX/IN': 66.218.71.205#53
Mar 10 18:31:12 localhost named[3842]: FORMERR resolving 
'_domainkey.joysticktowers.com/TXT/IN': 66.218.71.205#53
Mar 10 18:31:12 localhost named[3842]: FORMERR resolving 
'joysticktowers.com/A/IN': 216.109.116.20#53
Mar 10 18:31:12 localhost named[3842]: FORMERR resolving 
'joysticktowers.com/MX/IN': 216.109.116.20#53
Mar 10 18:31:12 localhost named[3842]: FORMERR resolving 
'_domainkey.joysticktowers.com/TXT/IN': 216.109.116.20#53
Mar 10 18:31:17 localhost named[3842]: FORMERR resolving 
'_policy._domainkey.joysticktowers.com/TXT/IN': 216.109.116.20#53
Mar 10 18:31:17 localhost named[3842]: FORMERR resolving 
'_policy._domainkey.joysticktowers.com/TXT/IN': 66.218.71.205#53
Mar 10 18:31:27 localhost spamd[27732]: dkim: lookup failed: DNS query timeout 
for _policy._domainkey.joysticktowers.com 
Mar 10 18:31:29 localhost named[3842]: FORMERR resolving 
'joysticktowers.com/A/IN': 216.109.116.20#53
Mar 10 18:31:29 localhost named[3842]: FORMERR resolving 
'joysticktowers.com/A/IN': 66.218.71.205#53
Mar 10 18:32:23 localhost named[3842]: FORMERR resolving 
'joysticktowers.com/MX/IN': 216.109.116.20#53
Mar 10 18:32:23 localhost named[3842]: FORMERR resolving 
'joysticktowers.com/MX/IN': 66.218.71.205#53
Mar 10 18:33:20 localhost fetchmail[19764]:  flushed 
Mar 10 18:33:20 localhost fetchmail[19764]: socket error while fetching from 
pop.earthlink.net 
Mar 10 18:33:20 localhost fetchmail[19764]: Query status=2 (SOCKET) 

I've removed the SA markup portion of the log. Going to my spam folder I saw 
multiple copies of the same message. The question is, what is causing this, 
is it:

a) a fetchmail issue
b) a dkim plugin issue
c) a bind issue
d) mangled headers causing this
e) none of the above but an earthlink issue

I'm running fetchmail 6.2.5, mail is downloaded and piped through procmail to 
the various folders.

Thanks for any advice.

-- 
Chris
KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C

Re: [fetchmail-users] Changing user configuration to mbox, instead of Maildir, format

[Nico G. <ni...@ng...>]

Hi,
* Francis Giannaros <fr...@gi...> [2007-03-11 16:02]:
> On my local machine (openSUSE) I've got fetchmail up-and-running pretty well; 
> system, POP3 etc mail are sent directly into my mbox.
> 
> On a server (Ubuntu, where I don't have root access) it appears that the 
> default settings for all mail are Maildir. I really need to have them in mbox 
> format; is there any way I change the configuration for this in fetchmail, so 
> I can 'force' it to go into a particular mbox, as mbox format.

The configuration of mbox or maildir has nothing to do with 
fetchmail, fetchmail doesn't care about your local setup.
Kind regards
Nico
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Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail statistics ?

[Julien T. <jul...@ly...>]

for archives, here a small & quick script to get stats.


Regards


		Julien

[fetchmail-users] Changing user configuration to mbox, instead of Maildir, format

[Francis G. <fr...@gi...>]

Hi guys,

On my local machine (openSUSE) I've got fetchmail up-and-running pretty well; 
system, POP3 etc mail are sent directly into my mbox.

On a server (Ubuntu, where I don't have root access) it appears that the 
default settings for all mail are Maildir. I really need to have them in mbox 
format; is there any way I change the configuration for this in fetchmail, so 
I can 'force' it to go into a particular mbox, as mbox format.

I've already tried setting DEFAULT in ~/.procmailrc, but it doesn't seem to 
respect that.

Any ideas?

Kind thoughts,
Francis

Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail statistics ?

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 3/10/07, Julien TOUCHE <jul...@ly...> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> is there a way to get some statistics for fetchmail ?
> for a given log (or a list), getting number of mails fetched for a
> period (yearly, monthly, weekly, daily or manual) per account.

Not directly, but you could from the log files - you may be able to
modify the likes of awstats to provide that information.  I don't
believe fetchmail ever logs which account a mail was collected from,
so you'd probably have to interpret the information in the log file to
identify that.

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[fetchmail-users] fetchmail statistics ?

[Julien T. <jul...@ly...>]

Hi

is there a way to get some statistics for fetchmail ?
for a given log (or a list), getting number of mails fetched for a
period (yearly, monthly, weekly, daily or manual) per account.

thanks
Regards


		Julien

Re: [fetchmail-users] use variables in fethcmailrc ?

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 3/9/07, M. Emal Alekozai <me...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to substitute some of my setting in my fetchmailrc file by variables to make the file more flexible.
>
> Is it possible to use variables in a fetchmail config file ?

No

> What would is the standard way of doing this in fetchmail?

As Christian said, use the defaults section.  Either that or use a
script to generate it.

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Re: [fetchmail-users] use variables in fethcmailrc ?

[Christian E. <bla...@gm...>]

* M. Emal Alekozai on Friday, March 09, 2007 at 14:00:24 +0100:
> I want to substitute some of my setting in my fetchmailrc file by variables to make the file more flexible.
> 
> Is it possible to use variables in a fetchmail config file ?
> For example:
>  $CERTFOLDER=$HOME/.certs
>  poll pop.gmail.com with proto POP3 user 'us...@gm...' there with
>  password 'secret' is 'newbie' here options keep 
>  ssl sslfingerprint '59:51:61:89:CD:DD:B2:35:94:BB:44:97:A0:39:D5:B4'
>  sslcertck sslcertpath $CERTFOLDER
> 
> What would is the standard way of doing this in fetchmail?

Use the keyword 'defaults' ?

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[fetchmail-users] use variables in fethcmailrc ?

[M. E. A. <me...@gm...>]

Hi, 

I want to substitute some of my setting in my fetchmailrc file by variables to make the file more flexible.

Is it possible to use variables in a fetchmail config file ?
For example:
 $CERTFOLDER=$HOME/.certs
 poll pop.gmail.com with proto POP3 user 'us...@gm...' there with
 password 'secret' is 'newbie' here options keep 
 ssl sslfingerprint '59:51:61:89:CD:DD:B2:35:94:BB:44:97:A0:39:D5:B4'
 sslcertck sslcertpath $CERTFOLDER

What would is the standard way of doing this in fetchmail?

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Re: [fetchmail-users] injecting message and header rewrite

[Payal R. <pay...@sc...>]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 07:16:02AM +0000, Rob MacGregor wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Payal Rathod <pay...@sc...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have read the docs and faq but am quite confused with "header rewrite"
> > option. I want to download mails from server X (sendmail) for my domain
> > example.com, by fetchmail and inject in my localhost (qmail) - clean it
> > for viruses and spam and forward it to server Y (which can be anything).
> > qmail will route the messages through control/smtproutes files. What are
> > the options I require for fetchmail, do I need to play with headers?
> > Server Y is not in my control (it may be exchange server or MDaemon) and
> > is set to receive mails for example.com
> 
> "It depends" - there is far too little real information to be certain.
>  However, you shouldn't *have* to rewrite the headers.  Certainly the
> approach you've outlined is how I use fetchmail and I don't rewrite
> headers.

It is not working. My local qmail's box is showing that when I am using 
fetchmail to download mails from my remote server and injecting it in my 
local SMTP, it is rewritting my recipent from pa...@ex... to 
payal@localhost
I am simple running fetchmail as,
fetchmail -v -f /path/to/rcfile

Any ideas on what is wrong? The rc file is just a simple 2 line test 
file like below,
poll domain with proto pop3, nodns :
user payal with pass word to payal here ......

With warm regards,
-Payal

Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail and socks5

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 3/8/07, Jochen Hayek <Joc...@ha...> wrote:
> A while ago I started experiments with socks5 (-> dante)
> and created a /etc/socks.conf on my local host and I set up a socks5 proxy server on a neighbour box.
>
> I did not instruct my local fetchmail to make use of my socks5 proxy
> and I also wasn't aware, that my local fetchmail actually does us it,
> but in a situation, when that proxy server on the neighbour box temporarily did not run,
> I finally noticed (using "strace"), that fetchmail contacted my socks5 proxy.
>
>
> I did some rtfm-ing,
> but I did not find a way to instruct fetchmail to *not* attempt contacting my socks5 proxy.

Fetchmail has *no* native socks support.  You're either running it
with a socks wrapper (runsock/socksify) or have added this yourself
(eg via ld.so.preload).  It's hard to say though as you've provided no
real information (version numbers, contents of configuration files,
command lines used, anything really).

I'd suggest you consult the dante documentation or mailing list, for
help on how to configure dante :)

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[fetchmail-users] fetchmail and socks5

[Jochen H. <Joc...@Ha...>]

A while ago I started experiments with socks5 (-> dante)
and created a /etc/socks.conf on my local host and I set up a socks5 proxy server on a neighbour box.

I did not instruct my local fetchmail to make use of my socks5 proxy
and I also wasn't aware, that my local fetchmail actually does us it,
but in a situation, when that proxy server on the neighbour box temporarily did not run,
I finally noticed (using "strace"), that fetchmail contacted my socks5 proxy.


I did some rtfm-ing,
but I did not find a way to instruct fetchmail to *not* attempt contacting my socks5 proxy.

I had to get rid of my local /etc/socks.conf , so that fetchmail talked straight to the IMAP instead of through the socks5 proxy.

I would actually prefer a command line option and an entry in the RC file.

Is there already a feature of fetchmail, that this could be made similar to?



Does the community have any comments on this?

J.

Re: [fetchmail-users] injecting message and header rewrite

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 3/6/07, Payal Rathod <pay...@sc...> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have read the docs and faq but am quite confused with "header rewrite"
> option. I want to download mails from server X (sendmail) for my domain
> example.com, by fetchmail and inject in my localhost (qmail) - clean it
> for viruses and spam and forward it to server Y (which can be anything).
> qmail will route the messages through control/smtproutes files. What are
> the options I require for fetchmail, do I need to play with headers?
> Server Y is not in my control (it may be exchange server or MDaemon) and
> is set to receive mails for example.com

"It depends" - there is far too little real information to be certain.
 However, you shouldn't *have* to rewrite the headers.  Certainly the
approach you've outlined is how I use fetchmail and I don't rewrite
headers.

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[fetchmail-users] injecting message and header rewrite

[Payal R. <pay...@sc...>]

Hi,
I have read the docs and faq but am quite confused with "header rewrite" 
option. I want to download mails from server X (sendmail) for my domain 
example.com, by fetchmail and inject in my localhost (qmail) - clean it 
for viruses and spam and forward it to server Y (which can be anything).
qmail will route the messages through control/smtproutes files. What are 
the options I require for fetchmail, do I need to play with headers?  
Server Y is not in my control (it may be exchange server or MDaemon) and 
is set to receive mails for example.com
Any ideas please?
With warm regards,
-Payal

Re: [fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for non-existingusers?

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 2/26/07, Ivan Imperl <nos...@ml...> wrote:
> Nedavno Stuart J. Browne pise:
>
> | POP3 has 'top' which fetches headers-only, but yes, can't get the body
> | seperately.
>
>
> But I do not want to get the body separately, I want NOT to get mail at
> all after fetching headers (if I find that that particular mail is for
> user that does not exist on my mail server). Looking at fetchmail log
> it seems to me that it can be done:
<---SNIP--->
> But I do not knew how how to do that :-(

In summary of what others have said in this thread:

1) You CANNOT do that with POP3.  You have to switch to IMAP to solve
your problem.
2) To not forward mis-addressed email you have to set the postmaster
address to ""

Also known as, fetchmail cannot make up for the shortcomings of your
ISP or the way you've configured it.

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Re: [fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for non-existingusers?

[Ivan I. <nos...@ml...>]

Nedavno Stuart J. Browne pise:

| POP3 has 'top' which fetches headers-only, but yes, can't get the body
| seperately.


But I do not want to get the body separately, I want NOT to get mail at
all after fetching headers (if I find that that particular mail is for
user that does not exist on my mail server). Looking at fetchmail log
it seems to me that it can be done:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<som...@so...> BODY=7BIT SIZE=1428
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.0 <som...@so...>... Sender ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<non...@ou...>
fetchmail: SMTP< 550 5.1.1 <non...@ou...>... User    \
	unknown
fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't really like recipient address        \
	`non...@ou...'
-----------------------------------------------------------------------


It looks like that at this point fetchmail got message that I do not
want this mail, but then it downloads it anyway and forwards it to
postmaster (iva):

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<iva@localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.5 <iva@localhost>... Recipient ok
fetchmail: no address matches; forwarding to iva.
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on\
	a line by itself
#*fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 l1QAh4Iv013586 Message accepted for delivery
fetchmail:  flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
-----------------------------------------------------------------------


So if at one point fetchmail got the message that "SMTP listener doesn't
really like recipient address" I just have to make it to skip few steps
("no address matches; forwarding to iva") and to go right to:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

But I do not knew how how to do that :-(




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Re: [fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for non-existing users?

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Yvan <nos...@ml...> writes:

> Nedavno Matthias Andree pise:
>
> | The best solution though is telling the upstream site what valid users
> | are and have them reject messages for others
>
>
> How do I do that?

That depends on your upstream, evidently. E-Mail, fax, phone, ... :-)

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