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
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