Re: [Fetchmail-users] Problem using fetchmail with a user

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

On Friday 17 October 2014 03:55:32 Matthias Andree did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Am 16.10.2014 um 02:40 schrieb Ken Arromdee:
> > I am running Mageia 4.0 which includes fetchmail 6.3.26.  The
> > following is my
> > 
> > entire /etc/fetchmailrc:
> >     set postmaster "arromdee"
> >     set bouncemail
> >     set no spambounce
> >     set softbounce
> >     set properties ""
> >     poll mail.xxxxxx.net with proto POP3
> >     
> >         user 'arromdee' password 'xxxxxxxx' mda "/bin/procmail -d
> >         arromdee"
> > 
> > I want to run fetchmail as a service, for which Mageia supplies a
> > script in /etc/rc.d.  I want it to retrieve the mail from user
> > arromdee on the remote system and deliver it to user arromdee on my
> > local machine.
> > 
> > This /etc/fetchmailrc does work.  However, I want to be able to put
> > the appropriate lines in my user-specific $HOME/.fetchmailrc, not in
> > the global /etc/fetchmailrc.  How can I do this?  It doesn't seem
> > like my user-specific .fetchmailrc is read at all (unless I run
> > fetchmail as myself instead of as root).
> 
> True on many systems.  You absolutely need to make sure that fetchmail
> is being started as "aromdee", not root.  Check if your boot scripts
> support this -- on many systems, they do not.
> 
> You can however configure fetchmail for daemon mode and launch it from
> cron - if it's already running, the second attempt to start it will
> instead wake up the first instance.
> 
> 
> Note that I advise against using procmail.  It has been unmaintained
> for more than a decade and has design flaws that cause apparent mail
> "loss" (which are not loss but in fact a fallback behaviour that
> causes procmail to _misfile_ mail in error situations, and - albeit
> possible - are hard to overcome by procmail recipes).
> 
Humm, since I have been using procmail for about a decade now, and am 
aware of its unsupported status simply because there have been no updates 
in several years, and it hasn't made any mistakes that I have become aware 
of, what do you suggest as its most painfree replacement?

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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