fetchmail-users

[fetchmail-users] confused about system wide and private setups

[Bob M. <or...@gm...>]

Hi:

I'm using Debian Sarge with fetchmail version 6.2.5-12sarge4.

How may setup fetchmail to download mail at different intervals for some
users?

I didn't understand if I can mix system wide fetchmailrc with private or
personal .fetchmailrcs for _some_ users.

If I create .fetchmailrcs, which process runs it? Do I have to create cron
jobs for this users?

TIA for your help,

-
Robert

Re: [fetchmail-users] confused about system wide and private setups

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

On 8/19/06, Bob Meier <or...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi:
>
>  I'm using Debian Sarge with fetchmail version 6.2.5-12sarge4.

You should be on 6.3.4

>  How may setup fetchmail to download mail at different intervals for some
> users?

Provide different interval options:

poll pop.isp1.net user first password firspw interval 1
poll pop.isp2.com user second password secondpw interval 2

That would poll pop.isp1.net every run and pop.isp2.com every second.

>  I didn't understand if I can mix system wide fetchmailrc with private or
> personal .fetchmailrcs for _some_ users.

Yes, you can though you don't have to.

>  If I create .fetchmailrcs, which process runs it? Do I have to create cron
> jobs for this users?

You would need to either run a daemon as those users or use cron to
schedule the runs.

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Re: [fetchmail-users] confused about system wide and private setups

[Rob F. <rf...@fu...>]

Rob MacGregor wrote:
> On 8/19/06, Bob Meier <or...@gm...> wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> >  I'm using Debian Sarge with fetchmail version 6.2.5-12sarge4.
>
> You should be on 6.3.4

Not necessarily.  Debian sarge (stable) has patched 6.2.5 to fix the 
security problems there.

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Re: [fetchmail-users] confused about system wide and private setups

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

Rob Funk <rf...@fu...> writes:

> Rob MacGregor wrote:
>> On 8/19/06, Bob Meier <or...@gm...> wrote:
>> > Hi:
>> >
>> >  I'm using Debian Sarge with fetchmail version 6.2.5-12sarge4.
>>
>> You should be on 6.3.4
>
> Not necessarily.  Debian sarge (stable) has patched 6.2.5 to fix the 
> security problems there.

That doesn't mean they've included fixes for the other bugs I've worked
on for 6.3.X, or that we should be supporting it, though I don't recall
interval bug fixes offhand either.

OTOH, Rob MacGregor does the voluntary (and usually excellent) support
work on the lists, if he has no desire to keep an eye on 6.2.5
compatibility, that's more than just fine with me.

Note however that Debian has its own system of starting fetchmail (of
which I know little WRT the 6.2.X days).

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Re: [fetchmail-users] confused about system wide and private setups

[Michelle K. <lin...@fr...>]

Hello Matthias,

Am 2006-08-20 12:34:42, schrieb Matthias Andree:

> That doesn't mean they've included fixes for the other bugs I've worked
> on for 6.3.X, or that we should be supporting it, though I don't recall
> interval bug fixes offhand either.

...but backporting of the Sid version 6.3.4-4 to Sarge is easy.

AFAIK is it allready on <bpo>

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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Re: [fetchmail-users] confused about system wide and private setups

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

On 8/20/06, Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...> wrote:
> That doesn't mean they've included fixes for the other bugs I've worked
> on for 6.3.X, or that we should be supporting it, though I don't recall
> interval bug fixes offhand either.
>
> OTOH, Rob MacGregor does the voluntary (and usually excellent) support
> work on the lists, if he has no desire to keep an eye on 6.2.5
> compatibility, that's more than just fine with me.

Thanks :)  Given how useful I find fetchmail it's good to be able to
do something in support.

I no longer have 6.2.x (or older!) to hand which makes it hard to
provide any real support or assistance.  Fortunately very little has
changed WRT configuration so it's possible to help out with config
issues.  Problems relating to running it however...

Also, I only run Fetchmail on FreeBSD these days (though I can test on
an old Mandrake 9.1 box), which makes helping people with startup
issues on other platforms all but impossible.

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Re: [fetchmail-users] confused about system wide and private setups

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

"Rob MacGregor" <rob...@gm...> writes:

> Also, I only run Fetchmail on FreeBSD these days (though I can test on
> an old Mandrake 9.1 box), which makes helping people with startup
> issues on other platforms all but impossible.

I've seen various run scripts (old and new FreeBSD, Debian, SUSE Linux
10.0) and they are mutually vastly different.

SUSE are quite retro, they are *still* running fetchmail as root, but
they also use --fetchall as a default and thus circumvent quite a few
troubles with b0rked servers.

Debian run fetchmail 6.3.X (in testing) in its own "fetchmail" account
by default, FreeBSD can either do that, or it has recently gained a
means to spawn one fetchmail process per user.

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