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[fetchmail-users] Fetchmail forwarding

[Spam M. <wel...@gm...>]

Hello,
I appologize if this has been asked before, but I've search the archives and
found no solution.

What I'd like to do is have fetchmail collect mail from all my various email
accounts, and forward everything to my gmail account.  I've been able to get
the polling working properly, however I can't get the messages properly
forwarding to my gmail account.  I was just wondering if I've set the smtp
variables correctly (see .fetchmailrc included below)?  If i remove the two
smtp lines, fetchmail happily runs and exits with no errors (however since I
dont have any email software installed locally the mail doesn't actually go
anywhere).  However, when I add the smtp lines the software hangs on the
"reading message add...@gm...@gmail-pop.l.google.com:1 of 11 (2020
octets)" line.

I'm using version 6.3.2, and my .fetchmailrc is below (where I want to
collect messages from address1 and forward them to address 2):

poll pop.gmail.com
  proto POP3
  port 995
  user 'add...@gm...'
  ssl

smtphost 'smtp1.sympatico.ca'
smtpname 'add...@gm...'

fetchall
keep

Thanks for any help!
Dan

Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail can't talk to dovecot

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

On 9/30/06, M. Fioretti <mfi...@mc...> wrote:
> Being too clever for my own good, I have the home computer in such a
> state, thanks to a lot of experiments, that I cannot install other
> clients without a lot of work (my fault, yes). However, I have the
> password stored in the browser, so I don't have to type it every time
> I check email with squirrelmail. I have looked at what firefox
> transmits thanks to the live http headers extension.
>
> The same password which, sent to squirrelmail via the form, works,
> doesn't work if I copy it (correcting urlencoding, of course) into the
> fetchmail script...
>
> What else could it be?

Lots of things, not least being the authentication method used and the
configuration of dovecot.

I should point out that, given that your install of fetchmail works
against other remote servers the problem is almost certainly related
to the configuration of the dovecot server.

> of course, but the password should be the same, shouldn't it?

Yes, but my point is that dovecot does not necessarily accept the
authentication method that fetchmail is trying to use from a remote
host (or even a local one).

I would advise you do the following:

1) Increase the logging level on the dovecot server.  That will tell
you why the connection is failing.

2) Install fetchmail locally on the dovecot server.  Try doing a mail
check both against localhost and it's external IP.

3) Try any other remote client from the linux box.

At the very least you need to do (1).  Until you do that we don't know
why the dovecot server isn't accepting the connections.

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Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail can't talk to dovecot

[M. F. <mfi...@mc...>]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 17:04:05 PM +0100, Rob MacGregor
(rob...@gm...) wrote:

> Well, one quick test would be to use any other IMAP/POP client (from
> the home linux PC) against the remote server to confirm that the
> username/password are correct.

Being too clever for my own good, I have the home computer in such a
state, thanks to a lot of experiments, that I cannot install other
clients without a lot of work (my fault, yes). However, I have the
password stored in the browser, so I don't have to type it every time
I check email with squirrelmail. I have looked at what firefox
transmits thanks to the live http headers extension.

The same password which, sent to squirrelmail via the form, works,
doesn't work if I copy it (correcting urlencoding, of course) into the
fetchmail script...

What else could it be?

> (Note that using squirrelmail doesn't necessarily test the same
> connection methods,

of course, but the password should be the same, shouldn't it?

TIA,
	Marco

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Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail can't talk to dovecot

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

On 9/27/06, Marco Fioretti <mfi...@mc...> wrote:
>
> In which way? My understanding is that, with those settings, secure
> connection should be tried but, if failing, unsecure one would be used
> without problems. That's why I wrote what I wrote? Where am I wrong here?

I have exactly zero experience of dovecot, so couldn't tell you.  Some
POP/IMAP servers however default to requiring SSL for unsecure auth
methods.

> No, sorry. The remote server runs postfix + dovecot + squirrelmail just fine.
> Fetchmail runs on my _home_ linux PC: it works fine with other accounts on _other_
> servers (all pop3) which I do not administer. Only on this box which I'm setting
> up myself there is this problem between the home fetchmail and the remote dovecot.
>
> I'll try the test and settings you suggested tonight at home and report. In the
> meantime any feedback (especially to my answers in this message) is greatly appreciated.

Well, one quick test would be to use any other IMAP/POP client (from
the home linux PC) against the remote server to confirm that the
username/password are correct.

(Note that using squirrelmail doesn't necessarily test the same
connection methods, squirrelmail may be configured to use the loopback
interface, which may have different, eg lower, security settings).

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Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail can't talk to dovecot

[Marco F. <mfi...@mc...>]

Rob wrote:

> > (I'll fix the certificates problem after I've managed to get 
> > in successfully with plain imap or pop3)
> 
> They may be linked.

In which way? My understanding is that, with those settings, secure
connection should be tried but, if failing, unsecure one would be used
without problems. That's why I wrote what I wrote? Where am I wrong here?

> > (note: fetchmail is regularly working on other accounts)
> 
> On this server?  If so it points directly to a username/password
> mismatch between the server and fetchmail.

No, sorry. The remote server runs postfix + dovecot + squirrelmail just fine.
Fetchmail runs on my _home_ linux PC: it works fine with other accounts on _other_
servers (all pop3) which I do not administer. Only on this box which I'm setting
up myself there is this problem between the home fetchmail and the remote dovecot.

I'll try the test and settings you suggested tonight at home and report. In the
meantime any feedback (especially to my answers in this message) is greatly appreciated.

Ciao,
Marco

Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail can't talk to dovecot

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

On 9/27/06, Marco Fioretti <mfi...@mc...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have dovecot q1.0-0_22.rc7 up and running on a server: I can read
> email from squirrelmail just fine. When I try to download email with
> fetchmail, however, I get the result below. Why is that happening? In
> dovecot.conf I have:
>
> protocols = imap imaps pop3,
>
> so why should pop3 or imap fail? Where should I look?
>
> (I'll fix the certificates problem after I've managed to get in
> successfully with plain imap or pop3)

They may be linked.

> (note: fetchmail is regularly working on other accounts)

On this server?  If so it points directly to a username/password
mismatch between the server and fetchmail.

The errors provided by fetchmail suggest you're either requiring
SSL/TLS for logins or you've got an error in the username or password
in the fetchmail config.

I'd advise you increase the logging level on the server and retry.

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[fetchmail-users] fetchmail can't talk to dovecot

[Marco F. <mfi...@mc...>]

Hello,

I have dovecot q1.0-0_22.rc7 up and running on a server: I can read
email from squirrelmail just fine. When I try to download email with
fetchmail, however, I get the result below. Why is that happening? In
dovecot.conf I have:

protocols = imap imaps pop3,

so why should pop3 or imap fail? Where should I look?

(I'll fix the certificates problem after I've managed to get in
successfully with plain imap or pop3)

(note: fetchmail is regularly working on other accounts)

Thanks,

	Marco

fetchmail: 6.3.2 querying my.server (protocol POP3) at Wed 27 Sep 2006 12:15:17 AM CEST: poll started
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Dovecot ready.
fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3< CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< TOP
fetchmail: POP3< UIDL
fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES
fetchmail: POP3< PIPELINING
fetchmail: POP3< STLS
fetchmail: POP3< USER
fetchmail: POP3< SASL PLAIN DIGEST-MD5
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> STLS
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Begin TLS negotiation now.
fetchmail: Issuer Organization: SomeOrganization
fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: localhost.localdomain
fetchmail: Server CommonName: localhost.localdomain
fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain != my.server
fetchmail: my.server key fingerprint: ...
fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: self signed certificate
fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3< CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< TOP
fetchmail: POP3< UIDL
fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES
fetchmail: POP3< PIPELINING
fetchmail: POP3< USER
fetchmail: POP3< SASL PLAIN DIGEST-MD5
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> USER user_name
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< -ERR Authentication failed.
fetchmail: Authentication failed.
fetchmail: Authorization failure on user_name at my.server
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Logging out
fetchmail: 6.3.2 querying my.server (protocol POP3) at Wed 27 Sep 2006 12:15:21 AM CEST: poll completed
fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)
fetchmail: Writing fetchids file.
fetchmail: normal termination, status 3
fetchmail: Writing fetchids file.

if I try with IMAP the part after the certificate verification error is:

fetchmail: IMAP> A0003 CAPABILITY
fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDRE
N NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=DIGEST-MD5
fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 OK Capability completed.
fetchmail: Protocol identified as IMAP4 rev 1
fetchmail: IMAP> A0004 LOGIN "user_name" *
fetchmail: IMAP< A0004 NO Authentication failed.
fetchmail: IMAP> A0005 *
fetchmail: Authorization failure on user_name at my.server
fetchmail: IMAP> A0006 LOGOUT
fetchmail: IMAP< A0005 BAD Error in IMAP command received by server.
fetchmail: IMAP< * BYE Logging out

and I don't see any error message related to this in the server log.

Re: [fetchmail-users] TwoAccounts

[Andrea B. <and...@ti...>]

> Good, just remember to run "newaliases" 

I run "postalias" because I have "postfix".

bye
Andrea

Re: [fetchmail-users] TwoAccounts

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

"Andrea Bencini" <and...@ti...> writes:

>> But doesn't work on qmail --
>
> My MTA is postfix.

Good, just remember to run "newaliases" after the changes to the aliases
file (and be sure to set alias_maps and alias_database correctly and to
edit the right file).

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[fetchmail-users] fetchmail 6.3.5-beta3 snapshot

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

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Greetings,

I have uploaded a new fetchmail beta 6.3.5-beta3 snapshot to a temporary
download location: <http://www.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/fetchmail/>

Changes in fetchmail 6.3.5-beta3 since 6.3.5-beta2:

* Avoid crash in env.c/host_fqdn if we cannot canonicalize our own hostname.
  Reported by Alexander Holler.
* SSL fix by Miloslav Trmac (Red Hat): free the SSL contexts after the
  connection, to avoid from growing SSL certpaths without bounds, avoid using
  SSL contexts for unrelated connections, and to fix Red Hat Bug #206346.
* When going to sleep, log for how long.  Suggested by Claudia Ludwig.
* Catalan/ca (Ernest Adrogué Calveras), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki) - also
  made gettext 0.15 ready, Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Russian/ru (Pavel
  Maryanov), Spanish/es (Héctor García Álvarez), Vietnamese/vi (Clytie Siddall)

Happy fetching,
Matthias Andree
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Re: [fetchmail-users] Is it possible to save one email per file using bsmtp?

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

On 9/23/06, Aaron Wasserott <aa...@vi...> wrote:
> I would like to be able to save each email fetched in it's own file. Is
> there a way to do this using the option bsmtp? The manual page for the
> .fetchmailrc file states that there is an option to bsmtp which is -o.

You may need to write your own LDA (local delivery agent), or
configure your local LDA accordingly.  I'm pretty sure this has been
discussed in the past, so a search of the archives should help.

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Re: [fetchmail-users] TwoAccounts

[Andrea B. <and...@ti...>]

> But doesn't work on qmail --

My MTA is postfix.
Andrea

[fetchmail-users] Is it possible to save one email per file using bsmtp?

[Aaron W. <aa...@vi...>]

I would like to be able to save each email fetched in it's own file. Is 
there a way to do this using the option bsmtp? The manual page for the 
.fetchmailrc file states that there is an option to bsmtp which is -o. 
What does this do?

TIA!

- Aaron

Re: [fetchmail-users] TwoAccounts

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

"Andrea Bencini" <and...@ti...> writes:

>> If your original question was "how to duplicate messages for two
>> accounts"
>
> Yes, it was that.
>
>> For anything that is remotely sendmail compatible (i. e. most mailers
>> except qmail), writing something like this line into /etc/aliases
>
> This is the way.

But doesn't work on qmail --
you need add-on software for that.

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Re: [fetchmail-users] TwoAccounts

[Andrea B. <and...@ti...>]

> If your original question was "how to duplicate messages for two
> accounts"

Yes, it was that.

> For anything that is remotely sendmail compatible (i. e. most mailers
> except qmail), writing something like this line into /etc/aliases

This is the way.

Thank Matthias

Andrea

Re: [fetchmail-users] TwoAccounts

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

"Andrea Bencini" <and...@ti...> writes:

>> what exactly was unclear about "Multiple servers may be listed:" in said
>> section?
>
> The section that I read was "Configuration examples".
> The examples are clear, but I did'nt find the answer to my question.

If your original question was "how to duplicate messages for two
accounts", fetchmail doesn't directly support that, since it's built
around the idea of a local fully-fledged mail server that can do alias
expansion.

For anything that is remotely sendmail compatible (i. e. most mailers
except qmail), writing something like this line into /etc/aliases or
/etc/mail/aliases (check your manuals, details differ!) would work after
running "sendmail -bi" or whatever else your system requires to rebuild
the alias database:

locallist: localuser1 localuser2

Alternatively, but not recommended, you can trick it into doing that by
using an program that can deliver to multiple recipients at the same
time, for instance:

mda "/usr/sbin/sendmail -i -f %F -- localuser1 localuser2"

Syntax is crucial for the MDA option, do NOT add single quotes here, and
don't forget the -i.

Note that most filtering MDAs do not support multiple recipients on the
command line, so you'd need to spell this out in the configuration file.

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Matthias Andree

Re: [fetchmail-users] TwoAccounts

[Andrea B. <and...@ti...>]

> what exactly was unclear about "Multiple servers may be listed:" in said
> section?

The section that I read was "Configuration examples".
The examples are clear, but I did'nt find the answer to my question.
Andrea

Re: [fetchmail-users] query state=2 (SOCKET)

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

2006/9/14, Rob MacGregor <rob...@gm...>:
> On 9/13/06, Roberto Meyer <rob...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> > Finally I got a couple of errors with single connections.
> >
> > I've attached a .tgz file with the logs of fetchmail and tcpdump at
> > the moment of the errors, and both logs for a well done connection
> > too.
>
> A quick scan of the logs show what I'd expect for a networking
> problem.  I'll have a look at the text outputs from tcpdump later,
> though a quick scan doesn't show anything obvious right now.

[snip]

Yep, I think it's somewhat prooved. I tested this options:

1- server 1 -> ISP 1 -> actual hosting = socket error
2- server 1 -> ISP 1 -> another server = socket error
3- server 2 -> ISP 2 -> actual hosting = ok!!!

Both server 1 and 2 have the same fetchmail setup. It's an ISP problem!

As you said (and I read over the Internet) people who had this problem
solved it when they changed their ISP. ie: problems from work, when
they went home and fetched mail they had no problem at all.

There's almost 24hs I'm testing every 5' without trouble :-)

HTH someone else.

Thanx a lot for your help.

-
Roberto

Re: [fetchmail-users] TwoAccounts

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

"Andrea Bencini" <and...@ti...> writes:

>> This is detailed in the man page, which you obviously didn't bother to
>> read.  See the section titled "CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES".
>>
>> The online manual can be found at:
>>     http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-man.html
>>
> I am sorry, but before writing mailing-list I just read the fetchmail manual
> at http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-man.html. Reading the section "
> CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES" I didn't undestand what answer was to my question.
> Perhaps, kindly, it was better that you gave me the answer.

Andrea,

what exactly was unclear about "Multiple servers may be listed:" in said
section?

Do you have any suggestions how to reword this so it's easier to find or
recognize?

Grazie.

-- 
Matthias Andree

Re: [fetchmail-users] TwoAccounts

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

On 9/17/06, Andrea Bencini <and...@ti...> wrote:
> > This is detailed in the man page, which you obviously didn't bother to
> > read.  See the section titled "CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES".
> >
> > The online manual can be found at:
> >     http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-man.html
> >
> I am sorry, but before writing mailing-list I just read the fetchmail manual
> at http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-man.html. Reading the section "
> CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES" I didn't undestand what answer was to my question.
> Perhaps, kindly, it was better that you gave me the answer.

poll POP.ISP.NET
    user USERA with password PASSA is LOCALA here
    user USERB with password PASSB is LOCALB here

If however you want to put the same email into 2 separate accounts
then you'll have to handle that with your local SMTP server.

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Re: [fetchmail-users] TwoAccounts

[Andrea B. <and...@ti...>]

> This is detailed in the man page, which you obviously didn't bother to
> read.  See the section titled "CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES".
>
> The online manual can be found at:
>     http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-man.html
>
I am sorry, but before writing mailing-list I just read the fetchmail manual
at http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-man.html. Reading the section "
CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES" I didn't undestand what answer was to my question.
Perhaps, kindly, it was better that you gave me the answer.
Thank you
Andrea

Re: [fetchmail-users] query state=2 (SOCKET)

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

"Roberto Meyer" <rob...@gm...> writes:

> I'm really tired about it... I think I'll put my effort in testing the
> ISP and hosting service... fetchmail has a rock solid reputation and I
> think it's not fair for it to be the first suspect of this mistery ;-)

Well, you aren't the first, Wikipedia used to link several critics of
fetchmail, and some of them have, although exaggerated, a reasonable
amount of truth in them -- some of the shortcomings have been resolved
since those articles appeared though, or are at least on the plan --
I do not agree with some of the decisions ESR made, but I cannot change
everything over night. One reason is the lack of time, another that
fetchmail is stable code that cannot change radically with patchlevel
releases... and the 6.4 round hasn't really opened yet.

There IS 6.4 stuff on the trunk but I think I'll ditch that and copy 6.3
later, probably a while after 6.3.5 if no new problems crop up with
6.3.5 (which is also a few more weeks out probably) since redoing the
few 6.3.0 -> 6.4 changes will probably be easier than porting 6.3.5 back
onto the trunk... Subversion isn't too good at picking cherries.

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Re: [fetchmail-users] TwoAccounts

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

On 9/15/06, Andrea Bencini <and...@ti...> wrote:
> I have a e-mail address  and I would like to download my e-mails and put
> them in two accounts on my local server.
> example:
> my e-mail address= an...@ti...
> pop3=mail.tin.it
> first account on my local server=andrea1
> second account on my local server=andrea2
> How can I do in .fetchmailrc?

This is detailed in the man page, which you obviously didn't bother to
read.  See the section titled "CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES".

The online manual can be found at:
    http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-man.html

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[fetchmail-users] TwoAccounts

[Andrea B. <and...@ti...>]

I have a e-mail address  and I would like to download my e-mails and put
them in two accounts on my local server.
example:
my e-mail address= an...@ti...
pop3=mail.tin.it
first account on my local server=andrea1
second account on my local server=andrea2
How can I do in .fetchmailrc?
Can you help me?
Andrea

Re: [fetchmail-users] query state=2 (SOCKET)

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

2006/9/14, Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...>:

[snip]

> > Finally I got a couple of errors with single connections.
>
> Please update fetchmail (newer versions have fewer bugs and better error
> reporting) and if the problem persists, run:
>
> env LC_ALL=C fetchmail -vvv --nodetach --nosyslog -d0
>
> to obtain a more detailed log. However, it still looks like the problem
> is outside fetchmail to me.

Beacause it's a random error I agree with that.

I thought about fetching e-mails from a different place, over a
different ISP to figure out if the problem could be related to the ISP
or the hosting service instead.

Today I did an 'mtr' of 600 pings. Below you'll find the results
which, BTW, I think are reasonable.

HOST: myfetchmachine    Loss%   Snt   Last  Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
1. host.200.55.19.330        0.0%   600   25.4  40.0  21.3 307.8  32.1
2. 201.10.19.45                  0.0%   600   21.4  46.8  20.6 841.2  62.2
3. 201.10.19.41                  0.0%   600   36.3  49.4  21.3 876.4  65.9
4. 201.15.63.207                0.0%   600   56.5  77.6  38.9 806.1  74.6
5. mng-ats.impsat.net.ar   0.0%   600   41.6  68.7  38.7 659.6  71.5
6. remotemailserver.com   8.8%   600   46.3  72.8  42.8 669.9  64.5

I'm really tired about it... I think I'll put my effort in testing the
ISP and hosting service... fetchmail has a rock solid reputation and I
think it's not fair for it to be the first suspect of this mistery ;-)

Thanks a lot for your kind answers.

-- 
Roberto