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[Fetchmail-users] Please help with multiple users

[General T. L. <ad...@ge...>]

Hi all

 

Can somebody please help.

 

I have setup Postfix/Dovecot/Spamassassin with virtual users, but I need to
retrieve emails from my ISP.

 

I am trying to use Fetchmail without success, I can set it up to collect
email and send it to one user, but can somebody please explain how to setup
Fetchmail to collect the email from one account and distribute it to my
virtual users.

 

Any help Appreciated

 

Thanks

Re: [Fetchmail-users] Please help with multiple users

[Gene H. <ghe...@wd...>]

On Thursday 05 November 2015 07:56:54 General Traffic Ltd wrote:

> Hi all
>
>
>
> Can somebody please help.
>
>
>
> I have setup Postfix/Dovecot/Spamassassin with virtual users, but I
> need to retrieve emails from my ISP.
>
>
>
> I am trying to use Fetchmail without success, I can set it up to
> collect email and send it to one user, but can somebody please explain
> how to setup Fetchmail to collect the email from one account and
> distribute it to my virtual users.
>
>
>
> Any help Appreciated

I have only 2 or 3 virtual users here, but procmail seems to handle that 
chore with alacrity.

By using procmail for fetchmail's MTA, it is procmail that runs the 
incoming mail thru the clamav and spamassassin filters, then there isn't 
a huge practical limit, certainly well into the hundreds, perhaps 
thousands of virtual email accounts that it can deliver the individual 
mail to in /var/spool/mail.  File locking considerations need to be 
addressed of course but thats a solvable problem.
>
>
> Thanks
>
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: [Fetchmail-users] Please help with multiple users

[Gene H. <ghe...@wd...>]

On Thursday 05 November 2015 09:16:12 General Traffic Ltd wrote:

> Thanks for the help Gene,
>
> I have tried procmail also but I am new to this and was unable to get
> that to work also, cant seem to get that to work with virtual users
> either.

Back on the list, but when I get a chance to come up for air, I'll show 
you some of my "recipes'.  Right now I have a wife that tore up a knee 
yesterday, and the local radio station is off the air, and thats one of 
the things "I do" as a dying breed, at 81 yo, I still fix things.  So 
much of the day is shot before I can take a lot of time with this.

If someone else can help this gentleman, feel froggy and jump right in.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Heskett [mailto:ghe...@wd...]
> Sent: 05 November 2015 13:46
> To: fet...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Fetchmail-users] Please help with multiple users
>
> On Thursday 05 November 2015 07:56:54 General Traffic Ltd wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> >
> >
> > Can somebody please help.
> >
> >
> >
> > I have setup Postfix/Dovecot/Spamassassin with virtual users, but I
> > need to retrieve emails from my ISP.
> >
> >
> >
> > I am trying to use Fetchmail without success, I can set it up to
> > collect email and send it to one user, but can somebody please
> > explain how to setup Fetchmail to collect the email from one account
> > and distribute it to my virtual users.
> >
> >
> >
> > Any help Appreciated
>
> I have only 2 or 3 virtual users here, but procmail seems to handle
> that chore with alacrity.
>
> By using procmail for fetchmail's MTA, it is procmail that runs the
> incoming mail thru the clamav and spamassassin filters, then there
> isn't a huge practical limit, certainly well into the hundreds,
> perhaps thousands of virtual email accounts that it can deliver the
> individual mail to in /var/spool/mail.  File locking considerations
> need to be addressed of course but thats a solvable problem.
>
> > Thanks
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > Fetchmail-users mailing list
> > Fet...@li...
> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fetchmail-users
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> --
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
>
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: [Fetchmail-users] Please help with multiple users

[Jerry <je...@se...>]

On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 12:56:54 -0000, General Traffic Ltd stated:

> I have setup Postfix/Dovecot/Spamassassin with virtual users, but I need to
> retrieve emails from my ISP.
> 
> I am trying to use Fetchmail without success, I can set it up to collect
> email and send it to one user, but can somebody please explain how to setup
> Fetchmail to collect the email from one account and distribute it to my
> virtual users.

I have numerous "virtual" users with a Postfix/Dovecot/ setup that utilizes
fetchmail to gather the mail from several ISPs. In fact, I only use "virtual"
users on my system.

Now, I assume that you have fetchmail deliver the mail to Postfix. Postfix
should then deliver the mail to Dovecot. Dovecot will deliver each piece of
mail to the users default mailbox unless you set up "sieve" ti filter the
mail. That is how I handle it.

Sieve is way easier to use, and more powerful than procmail. It is also
supported. If you post some actual examples, I will be happy to show you how
to configure it.

-- 
Jerry

Re: [Fetchmail-users] Please help with multiple users

[General T. L. <ad...@ge...>]

Hi Jerry

I have sieve setup, could you please tell me how to pass mail from fetchmail
to postfix.

I have tried sending all mail to the postfix user but that just sits in
postfix mail folder.

thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry [mailto:je...@se...] 
Sent: 05 November 2015 19:26
To: Fet...@li...
Subject: Re: [Fetchmail-users] Please help with multiple users

On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 12:56:54 -0000, General Traffic Ltd stated:

> I have setup Postfix/Dovecot/Spamassassin with virtual users, but I 
> need to retrieve emails from my ISP.
> 
> I am trying to use Fetchmail without success, I can set it up to 
> collect email and send it to one user, but can somebody please explain 
> how to setup Fetchmail to collect the email from one account and 
> distribute it to my virtual users.

I have numerous "virtual" users with a Postfix/Dovecot/ setup that utilizes
fetchmail to gather the mail from several ISPs. In fact, I only use
"virtual"
users on my system.

Now, I assume that you have fetchmail deliver the mail to Postfix. Postfix
should then deliver the mail to Dovecot. Dovecot will deliver each piece of
mail to the users default mailbox unless you set up "sieve" ti filter the
mail. That is how I handle it.

Sieve is way easier to use, and more powerful than procmail. It is also
supported. If you post some actual examples, I will be happy to show you how
to configure it.

--
Jerry

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Re: [Fetchmail-users] Please help with multiple users

[Jerry <je...@se...>]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2015 09:39:15 -0000, General Traffic Ltd stated:

> I have sieve setup, could you please tell me how to pass mail from fetchmail
> to postfix.

You need to post the output of "postconf -n" Specify -nf to fold long lines
for human readability (Postfix 2.9 and later)

Also, the pertinent lines in the master.cf that pertain to dovecot.

-- 
Jerry

Re: [Fetchmail-users] Please help with multiple users

[General T. L. <ad...@ge...>]

Heres the output of postconf -n:

alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
debug_peer_level = 2
debugger_command = PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin xxgdb
$daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id & sleep 5
delay_warning_time = 4
disable_vrfy_command = yes
dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1
html_directory = no
mailbox_size_limit = 0
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
masquerade_domains = mydomain.co.uk
message_size_limit = 300000000
mydomain = mydomain.co.uk
myhostname = imap.mydomain.co.uk
mynetworks = $config_directory/mynetworks
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix
notify_classes = bounce, 2bounce, delay, policy, protocol, resource,
software
recipient_delimiter = +
relay_domains = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-relay_domains_maps.cf
resolve_numeric_domain = yes
sender_bcc_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/bcc
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
setgid_group = postdrop
smtp_tls_session_cache_database =
btree:$data_directory/smtp_tls_session_cache
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtpd_client_connection_rate_limit = 20
smtpd_client_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_recipient
reject_unknown_recipient_domain permit_mynetworks permit_inet_interfaces
smtpd_data_restrictions = reject_unauth_pipelining
smtpd_error_sleep_time = 10s
smtpd_hard_error_limit = 10
smtpd_helo_required = yes
smtpd_recipient_limit = 200
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated permit_mynetworks
reject_unauth_destination reject_non_fqdn_sender reject_non_fqdn_recipient
reject_unknown_recipient_domain permit_inet_interfaces
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname
smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_soft_error_limit = 5
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/pki/tls/certs/mydomain.co.uk.crt
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/pki/tls/private/mydomain.co.uk.key
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
smtpd_tls_security_level = may
smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s
smtpd_use_tls = yes
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550
virtual_alias_maps =
proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_alias_maps.cf,regexp:/etc/postfix/vir
tual_regexp
virtual_gid_maps = static:12
virtual_mailbox_base = /home/vmail
virtual_mailbox_domains =
proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_domains_maps.cf
virtual_mailbox_limit = 310000000
virtual_mailbox_maps =
proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_mailbox_maps.cf
virtual_minimum_uid = 101
virtual_transport = dovecot
virtual_uid_maps = static:101

And the lines (I hope) for Dovecot:

# Dovecot LDA
dovecot   unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
  flags=DRhu user=vmail:mail argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d
${recipient}
#

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry [mailto:je...@se...] 
Sent: 06 November 2015 16:06
To: Fet...@li...
Subject: Re: [Fetchmail-users] Please help with multiple users

On Fri, 6 Nov 2015 09:39:15 -0000, General Traffic Ltd stated:

> I have sieve setup, could you please tell me how to pass mail from 
> fetchmail to postfix.

You need to post the output of "postconf -n" Specify -nf to fold long lines
for human readability (Postfix 2.9 and later)

Also, the pertinent lines in the master.cf that pertain to dovecot.

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Jerry

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Re: [Fetchmail-users] Please help with multiple users

[Carlos E. R. <car...@op...>]

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On 2015-11-06 10:39, General Traffic Ltd wrote:
> Hi Jerry
> 
> I have sieve setup, could you please tell me how to pass mail from
> fetchmail to postfix.
> 
> I have tried sending all mail to the postfix user but that just
> sits in postfix mail folder.


poll SERVER with proto imap timeout 50, and tracepolls
        user REMOTE, with password PASS, is LOCALUSER here

a rule of that sort in fetchmail hands mail over to the local MTA,
which in my case is postfix.

Of course, the above is for single user.

What postfix does with it, is another issue. By default it will sit
under /var/spool/mail/, on *SUSE at least.

- -- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.

  (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith))
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Re: [Fetchmail-users] Please help with multiple users

[Gene H. <ghe...@wd...>]

On Friday 06 November 2015 05:08:53 Carlos E. R. wrote:

> On 2015-11-06 10:39, General Traffic Ltd wrote:
> > Hi Jerry
> >
> > I have sieve setup, could you please tell me how to pass mail from
> > fetchmail to postfix.
> >
> > I have tried sending all mail to the postfix user but that just
> > sits in postfix mail folder.
>
> poll SERVER with proto imap timeout 50, and tracepolls
>         user REMOTE, with password PASS, is LOCALUSER here
>
> a rule of that sort in fetchmail hands mail over to the local MTA,
> which in my case is postfix.
>
> Of course, the above is for single user.
>
> What postfix does with it, is another issue. By default it will sit
> under /var/spool/mail/, on *SUSE at least.

From there, it is generally up to the email agent to fetch it from there 
& sort it to the proper locations.  Since you're using dovecot and 
sieve, its generally a matter of writing the sort rules.   Here, I am 
basically single user, so I wrote a script to oversee inotifywait, which 
is watching /var/spool/mail, and when a file is closed, it takes the 
filename returned by inotifywait, and if its one that is legit mail for 
me, sends kmail a get the mail message over dbus or whatever 
interprocess utility is used on your system.  kmail then goes and gets 
it, sorting it to the proper location.

So literally all I have to do is read, and if I can help, reply to the 
message.  Everything else is 100% automatic here.  As it should be.

The only non-viri or non-spam rule in my .procmailrc sorts and routes 
messages from a niece in NYS,  putting them directly in the kmail folder 
dedicated to that. I should change that, and let kmail do that sorting 
as it is very occasionally confused when it finds a message that is not 
in its index for that folder.  But its not often enough to bug me.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

Re: [Fetchmail-users] Please help with multiple users

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

Am 05.11.2015 um 13:56 schrieb General Traffic Ltd:
> Hi all
> 
>  
> 
> Can somebody please help.
> 
>  
> 
> I have setup Postfix/Dovecot/Spamassassin with virtual users, but I need to
> retrieve emails from my ISP.
> 
>  
> 
> I am trying to use Fetchmail without success, I can set it up to collect
> email and send it to one user, but can somebody please explain how to setup
> Fetchmail to collect the email from one account and distribute it to my
> virtual users.
> 
>  
> 
> Any help Appreciated
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks

http://mandree.home.pages.de/mail/multidrop

If that works on your ISP's end, we can discuss how to sort the incoming
users apart.  I propose you start reading the fetchmail manual page,
check for multidrop, and then get back here with your questions and a
sample header of a test message you've sent to one of your virtual users.

Re: [Fetchmail-users] Please help with multiple users

[Carlos E. R. <car...@op...>]

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Resending. Apparently it bounced.

On 2015-11-06 11:27, General Traffic Ltd wrote:
> Thanks for helping Carlos,
> 
> I can pass mail to a single user but the problem I have is, All
> mail is sent to my ISP which I am using as a Backup MX temporarily,
> I then collect it and I need to send to my Virtual users.
> 
> But I don't know how to pick up the mail with fetchmail and
> distribute it to multiple users.


One step at a time :-)

Typically, you fetch the mail, get it into postfix, then you create
filters (procmail, sieve, whatever) to distribute it to the proper
people. Or you use "multidrop-mode" - see "man fetchmail", there are
examples.

It is not my usecase, so I can't give you more specifics.


If you post here the headers of some of that email, perhaps people
here might be able to tell you what to use to create a filter.


- -- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
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