Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail/Multiple Local Users/Multiple Email Accounts

[Lovell M. <lov...@gm...>]

On Apr 1, 2007, at 6:43 PM, Matthias Andree wrote:

> Lovell Mcilwain <lov...@gm...> writes:
>
>> Can anyone tell me how I can use fetchmail and procmail to be able to
>> download mail from two separate accounts to two separate local  
>> accounts?
>>
>> I already have a local account (user1) that is downloading mail from
>> my gmail account. Now I am trying to setup another account (user2) to
>> be able to download my work email (so I can keep both account emails
>> separate).
>>
>> When I attempt this I get the following error when trying to run
>> fetchmail as user2:
>> ===============
>> [user2@linux ~]$ fetchmail -c
>> fetchmail: can't check mail while another fetchmail to same host is
>> running.
>> ===============
>>
>> I assume I am getting this error because the fetchmail daemon is
>> already running on user1.
>
> As long as user1 and user2 have *distinct* home directories, that
> shouldn't be a problem, user1 and user2 can both be running a  
> fetchmail
> daemon at the same time -- unless they are sharing the same home
> directory.
>
> -- 
> Matthias Andree
No they are both running on completely different directories, nothing  
is shared.
user1 = /home/user1
user2 = /home/user2

I was able to get fetchmail started but I have now run into another  
problem.  When I checked my log after running in detailed verbose, I  
get the following error:
[lmcilwain@Firewall ~]$ tail -f fetchmail.log
procmail: Couldn't create "/var/mail/lmcilwain"
procmail: [17952] Sun Apr  1 17:54:43 2007
procmail: Assigning "LOGNAME=procmail.log"
procmail: Assigning "LOGFILE=procmail.log"
procmail: Opening "procmail.log"

So now I am not able to get anything into my inbox and everything  
haults.  I have not been able to find a way to get it to write to / 
var/mail/user2.

I even created it myself and gave it the same type of permissions
Owner = user2
Group = mail

But still it won't write.