Re: [Fetchmail-users] Notifying users about mail retrieval problems

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

Am 16.04.2015 um 18:46 schrieb Christian Schwarz:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I have multiple user entries in one fetchmail configuration file. The entries look like the following:
> 
> ```
> poll “source.example.com"
> 	proto IMAP
> 	port 143
> 	user “de...@so... <mailto:de...@so...>"
> 	password "demo1"
> 	smtphost localhost smtpname us...@my... <mailto:de...@my...>
> 	keep
> 	idle
> ```
> 
> I want my users to be individually notified via e-mail if fetchmail cannot connect to the host that is polled.
> Example: If fetchmail cannot connect / log in to source.example.com <http://source.example.com/> with the given credentials, I want a notification going straight to us...@my... <mailto:us...@my...>. (I guarantee this mail address exists).
> 
> From what I can tell, the `set bouncemail` and `set postmaster <postmaster mail address>` option seem to be good starting points, but neither configuration option seems to have any effect.
> 
> The OS is a Debian Jessie.
> 
> If you have any suggestion how to solve the problem, I would be happy to hear from you.

Such code does not exist.  Fetchmail sends warnings about connection
timeouts, oversized messages, and authentication failures, and that's it.