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getting fetchmail to work with postfix

Jürgen Echter — 2012-05-25T12:53:24

Hi,

i try to setup fetchmail to get mails and send them with postfix to my 
local dovecot imapd.

If i try to run fetchmail i get this in the logs:

fetchmail[4514]: 1 message for test< at >mydomain.de at mailserver.external.de.
fetchmail[4514]: reading message test< at >mydomain< at >mailserver.external.de:1 
of 1 (649 header octets) (log message incomplete)
fetchmail[4514]: connection to localhost:smtp [::1/25] failed: 
Connection refused.
postfix/smtpd[4516]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
postfix/smtpd[4516]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from localhost[127.0.0.1]: 
550 5.1.1 <test< at >mydomain.de>: Recipient address rejected: mydomain.de; 
from=<j.echter< at >mydomain.de> to=<test< at >mydomain.de> proto=ESMTP 
helo=<mehlbox.workgroup.local>
fetchmail[4514]: SMTP error: 550 5.1.1 <test< at >mydomain.de>: Recipient 
address rejected: mydomain.de
fetchmail[4514]: connection to localhost:smtp [::1/25] failed: 
Connection refused.
postfix/smtpd[4519]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
postfix/smtpd[4519]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from localhost[12

non-default "mailbox selection failed"

Travis Osterman — 2012-05-24T18:03:26

Hello, I am trying to use fectchmail to fetch the contents of a folder
(.spam.missed/) from my courier-imap server so that I can send the
messages to spamassassin's learning program.  Using this as a guide:
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SingleUserUnixInstall#Enable_IMAP_LearnAsSpam_folder

When I invoke
$ /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -v -n --folder /home/USER/.maildir/.spam.missed/
-m '/usr/bin/sa-learn -D --spam' --fetchmailrc /home/USER/.spamtrainingpoprc

I get this:
[snip]
fetchmail: IMAP> A0004 LOGIN "USER" *
fetchmail: IMAP< A0004 OK LOGIN Ok.
fetchmail: IMAP> A0005 SELECT "/home/USER/.maildir/.spam.missed/"
fetchmail: IMAP< A0005 NO Mailbox does not exist, or must be subscribed to.
fetchmail: mailbox selection failed
fetchmail: IMAP> A0006 LOGOUT
fetchmail: IMAP< * BYE Courier-IMAP server shutting down
fetchmail: IMAP< A0006 OK LOGOUT completed
fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from
USER< at >domain.tld
fetchmail: 6.3.21 querying domain.tld (protocol IMAP) at Thu May 24
13:21:13

Fetchmail, gmail, and a new computer

Jim J — 2012-05-20T18:24:20

I'm using fetchmail 6.3.18 (from Ubuntu Oneiric) to pull email from gmail
using POP3. It works fine. The first time I ran it it downloaded all of my
email. Every time I've run it since then it's downloaded only new email.
Gmail is configured to archive the email after it's been accessed via POP3.

Now I have a new computer (fetchmail 6.3.21, Ubuntu Precise). I would like
my new computer to pick up where the old left off. Fetchmail doesn't seem
to want to do this by default. Instead, it wants to download my entire
Gmail account. How do I make my new installation pick up where the other
one left off? Since fetchmail didn't download everything every time, even
after a reboot, it seems logical that there's a file somewhere I could copy
over, but I can't find one.

Thanks,

Jim

Problem with Demon's new Microsoft ExchangeServer 2010 service

John Connett — 2012-05-07T10:10:47

Operating system:
     $ cat /etc/SuSE-release
     openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64)
     VERSION = 12.1
     CODENAME = Asparagus

Name and origin of the RPM:
     $ rpm -q fetchmail
     fetchmail-6.3.21-4.1.3.x86_64

The name and version of the SMTP listener:
     $ rpm -q exim
     exim-4.75-5.1.3.x86_64

Command-line options you used:
     openSUSE 12.1 distributed /etc/inid.d/fetchmail with added "-vvv".

/etc/fetchmailrc (with names changed to protect the innocent):
     $ cat /etc/fetchmailrc
     # Configuration created Thu Apr 26 22:58:13 2012
     set bouncemail
     set properties ""
     set daemon 300
     poll mail.demon.co.uk proto IMAP
            localdomains yyy.demon.co.uk
            user 'administrator< at >yyy.demon.co.uk' there password 'secret' is  
xxx here
            sslproto TLS1
            sslcertck
     poll mail.demon.co.uk proto IMAP
            localdomains yyy.demon.co.uk
            user 'xxx< at >yyy.demon.co.uk' there password 'secret' is xxx here
            sslproto TLS1
            sslc

LDAP support

Jürgen Echter — 2012-04-25T08:39:49

Hi,

i'd like to use fetchmail to receive mails from our mailserver and put 
them to our local cyrus imap server.

cyrus is working with ldap.

does anybody have a good page to read how i could use fetchmail with ldap?

thanks

juergen

Sound question

Danny — 2012-04-06T05:11:56

Hi guys,

I want fetchmail/procmail to play a sound when I recieve mail from a certain
mail address ... is that possible?

I am running Debian ...

Thanks

Danny

AUTHFAIL

Masaru Nomiya — 2012-04-05T03:19:34

Hello,

I'm using fetchmail 6.3.21 on openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64).
From this month, my university changed Mail Server to;

IMAP
imap4 protocol over tls/ssl port 993
SMTP
smtp protocol over tls/ssl port 465

So, I got ssl sever certificate file, then installed.

I wrote .fetchmailrc as follows;

poll imap.ris.ac.jp
     protocol imap
     port 993
     user 'USERNAME'
     pass 'PASSWORD' 
     ssl
     sslproto tls
     sslfingerprint '21:AE:77:33:59:58:3D:6E:A5:9A:FB:C6:86:42:94:F2'
     sslcertck
     sslcertpath '/home/masaru/.certs'

At the moment, fetchmail -v gave me an error message;

[...]
fetchmail: IMAP< * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready
fetchmail: IMAP> A0001 CAPABILITY
fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LI

Can't retrieve all messages

Алексей Мишустин — 2012-03-25T20:25:14

Hello,

For some reason fetchmail doesn't retrieve all messages from my Gmail
inbox (about 2000 messages received in five months) via POP3. I've got
only a part of messages, about 540, even with `fetchmail -a`.

Verbose POP3 listing:

fetchmail: POP3< +OK Gpop ready for requests from [MY IP ADDRESS]
fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Capability list follows
fetchmail: POP3< USER
fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES
fetchmail: POP3< EXPIRE 0
fetchmail: POP3< LOGIN-DELAY 300
fetchmail: POP3< TOP
fetchmail: POP3< UIDL
fetchmail: POP3< X-GOOGLE-VERHOEVEN
fetchmail: POP3< X-GOOGLE-RICO
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> USER [MY LOGIN]
fetchmail: POP3< +OK send PASS
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Welcome.
fetchmail: выбирается или повторяется опрос каталога по умолчанию
(selecting or re-polling default folder)
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 542 3756251
fetchmail: POP3> UIDL
fetchmail: POP3< +OK

My .fetchmail.rc :

set logfile "[MY LOGFILE]

inactivity timeout when fetching mail from yahoo

Chris — 2012-03-24T13:55:03

The software I usually use to poll my yahoo account has gotten a bug in
it that hasn't been fixed yet so I've fallen back to fetchmail to poll
my pop account. I noticed awhile ago that after so many messages that
the fetchmail log is showing an inactivity timeout:

fetchmail: about to deliver with: procmail
fetchmail:  flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 15
fetchmail: POP3< -ERR inactivity timeout
fetchmail: inactivity timeout
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: 6.3.18 querying pop.mail.yahoo.com (protocol POP3) at Sat 24
Mar 2012 08:46:24 AM CDT: poll completed

fetchmail: discarding new UID list
fetchmail: Query status=24
fetchmail: Writing fetchids file.

My cl is this:

fetchmail -v -v -v --nokeep --nosyslog
--logfile /home/chris/fetchmaillog --uidl -m procmail

I have a 10Mbps dsl connection and according to a speed test I'm getting
8.3Mbps. Is it just an issue at yahoo?

anti - SPAM

2012-03-20T20:00:14

Any anti-SPAM s/w that can work with fetchmail?   Seems like everything I find seems to require I set up  an MTA and point incoming mail to it (vs using fetchmail to get my stuff where it currently goes), or, buy a service, or, like that . . .

Thanks.

Can't find /etc/default/fetchmailrc or/etc/fetchmailrc

Emessiri Kessiena — 2012-02-28T08:32:30

Hello,

I am new to this mailing list. Hope you all having a good day.

I recently install fetchmail-6.3.21 from source on my linux system.
I don't use a distribution, I am using a system I built using LFS.

During compilation and install all runs fine, I am able to "fetch" my mail
using the ./fetchmailrc file in my home directory. I am currently trying to
settup my fetchmail with Postfix to feed the mail to the MTA. However I
don't have a /etc/default/fetchmailrc file on my system.

I am using these instructions:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1015150

should I create it? of did I forget an option during compilation?

Any help would be greatly apreciated

Kind regards,

Fetchmail not deleting mail from gmail server forone user

Chris — 2012-02-23T01:15:53

Let me explain quite a bit more. My wife has a new Android smartphone so
I set her up with her own gmail account. To make things easy for her
until she gets used to using the phone I setup fetchmail to poll her
gmail account and pull her mail down to the computer. I also have a
gmail account and just copied/pasted the setup in .fetchmailrc and
changed username/password. When fetchmail polls my gmail account it
picks up any mail and deletes it from the server, when it polls her
account it picks up any mail but doesn't delete it from the server. Here
is the command line I'm using to call fetchmail:

fetchmail -v -v -v --nokeep --nosyslog
--logfile /home/chris/fetchmaillog --uidl -m procmail

Usually I just run it with one -v however it this case I wanted as
verbose logging as possible. Here's what the log output looks like:

fetchmail: 6.3.18 querying pop.gmail.com (protocol POP3) at Wed 22 Feb
2012 05:27:23 PM CST: poll started
fetchmail: Trying to connect to 74.125.45.108/995...connected.
fetchmail: Certific

Keeping only the last n messages one the serverwith POP3?

Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson — 2012-02-15T14:50:07

Hi all,

Is it possible to keep only the most recent n messages on a POP3 server?

I have one (actually two but only one I want this for) with rougly 30k
messages and want to delete the first n - 1000 messages.

Is this at all possible?


Johann

Fetchmail file

Steve Downes — 2012-02-06T09:22:23

I have a file which appeared when I had a fault in my postfix setup & it looks like an mbox file of a number of emails.
I have tried to convert it to Maildir using mb2md but this reports it is not an mbox format. I would like to add these to mydovecot system, ideally by re-feeding them into postfix but any way would do.

Anybody help me with this please?

Steve

attachments

Joaquín Adauto Diaz Trepat — 2012-02-02T21:10:40

Hello, first of all i want to thank for anyone how's taking time to read
this.
I set up a Postfix MTA with a fetchmail retriving mail from a google
account, everything was working fine but reacently i was reported that some
mails were lost. So i check the logs and i discover that fetchmail was
ignoring the new mail, all of them.

i put my fetchmailrc here---------------------------------------------

# Check mail every 300 seconds
set daemon 300
set syslog
#set idfile /var/lib/fetchmail/.fetchids
set postmaster USER

poll pop.gmail.com with proto POP3 and options no dns uidl
      user 'xxxxxx< at >tekii.com.ar' with pass "xxxxxxxx" is 'USER' here
options ssl keep fetchlimit 0 limit 0

end of fetchmailrc here---------------------------------------------

I run fetchmail manually turning off the daemon configuration with -v -v
and this is the log

fetchmail: 6.3.18 querying pop.gmail.com (protocol POP3) at Thu 02 Feb 2012
04:54:07 PM ART: poll started
fetchmail: Trying to connect to 74.125.45.109/995...connected.

no dns option?

skull — 2012-01-30T17:02:59

Hey everybody

We're using zarafa as a mailserver and fetchmail do deliver the mails.
.fetchmailrc has the following format:

set postmaster "foo< at >bar.com"
set bouncemail
set properties "fetchall"
poll pop.foobar.com protocol POP3
        no dns
        user foo
        password bar
        mda "/usr/bin/zarafa-dagent foobar"
;

it works like a charm. but i saw that on some servers there is the "no dns" option. on some servers its missing. on some its even mixed.
 i asked my boss about it (he wrote most of the .fetchmailrc on the customer servers). he said he had no idea why "no dns" is in the file.
what exactly is this option?
the man page says: no dns - Disable DNS lookup for multidrop 

english isn't my mothertongue so i don't really know what "multidrop" is :)

and skipping the dns lookup when connecting to pop.foobar.com does just not make sense.

anyone care to explain?
(german explanations preffered ;) )

How to handle mail with broken headers?

Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson — 2012-01-30T15:53:31

Hi all,

I have a few emails with broken headers in my yahoo mailbox and
fetchmail refuses to retrieve/forward them.  I have repeated examples of

  fetchmail: reading message
  myrkraverk< at >pop.plus-new.mail.fy4.b.yahoo.com:3695 of
  21103 (3139 octets) (log message incomplete)
  fetchmail: incorrect header line found while scanning headers
  fetchmail:  not flushed

In my log file.  And yes, you're right.  I do have 21k emails, and I'm
not deleting them from my mailbox.

Interestingly enough, that particular mail is now being skipped by
fetchmail, though it does have a broken header:

  X-YahooFilteredBulk: 206.40.205.124
  smedley.info>
  X-Originating-IP: [206.40.205.124]

Checking the UIDL in a manual POP3 session:

  UIDL 3639
  +OK 3639 AMZEv9EAAUj4R3RxaQBpvXThslA

And test to see if it's been retrieved.

  % grep AMZEv9EAAUj4R3RxaQBpvXThslA .fetchids
  myrkraverk< at >pop.mail.yahoo.com AMZEv9EAAUj4R3RxaQBpvXThslA

Yet I can not find it anywhere when I grep for the message id:

  find . -exec grep 47797E8A.

Suppress fetchmail auth failure messages torecipient address.

Rolinson, Sean — 2012-01-24T13:34:03

Hello all,

I was looking through the archives, man page, and Google, and I was unable to find an answer to my question.  I apologize in advance if this has been asked and answered before.

I am trying to suppress the "fetchmail authentication failed on {address}" messages which are sent to the delivery/recipient address when fetchmail has trouble logging in to a POP3 server.  Ultimately, there are 2 emails sent for every occurrence of the problem (one for the failure, and one for the OK).

We have a very busy Exchange servers that periodically fails to authenticate when logging in to it via POP3.  When this happens, an email is sent to the delivery/recipient address configured in fetchmail notifying of the failure.  I'd like to know how to suppress these messages if possible.

I realize we are aggressive in our how often we check (see config file below), and I'm sure increasing the polling interval would alleviate some of the failure, but I'd prefer to just suppress these messages completely if poss

Making fetchmail work with original sendmailstorage format

Alan McConnell — 2012-01-13T15:17:03

Assembled Wisdom!

I have used fetchmail for many years.  It has been invaluable in
getting E-mail from various "cloud" accounts back to my home
Linux box(Debian squeeze).  But up to now it has been used
to bet mail from e.g. /var/mail/<my account name>.

Now I am confronted with a system which stores the
incoming mail in separate files in <my home directory>/mail/new/.
I am assured by the owners of this system that this is a
standard way to store incoming mail.

So my question: how to make a .fetchmailrc that will
pull the single files from ~/mail/new/?  the files
have names like:
1326465349.H185481P14437.<systemname>.com,S\=1881  .
Running 'file' on them tells me that they are "ASCII mail
text", and I can inspect their contents.

I am hopeful that this is an easy question.  I apologize if
the answer is in the documentation somewhere; I couldn't 
find it.

TIA for anticipated help, and Best wishes,

Alan, in Silver Spring MD

Troubleshooting SSL error

2012-01-05T03:25:41

Environment:
CentOS 5.7
Fetchmail RPM is fetchmail-6.3.6-1.1.el5_3.1
OpenSSL RPM is openssl-0.9.8e-20.el5
Sendmail RPM is sendmail-8.13.8-8.1.el5_7

When I test OpenSSL connectivity, I am able to connect to the IMAP  
server I want to poll and also to the local MTA.

openssl s_client -connect pod51011.outlook.com:993
openssl s_client -starttls smtp -connect localhost:25

Both of these commands open connections, I have attached a text file  
showing the complete output.

Fetchmail fails with an error that I do not understand. The error  
states there is an unknown protocol. The command and error output is  
immediately below, and farther down I have given output from fetchmail  
-V.

I would be grateful for any assistance that can be provided to resolve  
this issue.

Thank you
John


[otrs< at >tki-c01 ~]$  /usr/bin/fetchmail -vvv -a --ssl
fetchmail: 6.3.6 querying pod51011.outlook.com (protocol IMAP) at Wed  
04 Jan 2012 06:59:46 PM EST: poll started
fetchmail: running openssl s_client -connect  %h:%p (host  
po

Troubleshooting SSL error

2012-01-05T03:25:41

Environment:
CentOS 5.7
Fetchmail RPM is fetchmail-6.3.6-1.1.el5_3.1
OpenSSL RPM is openssl-0.9.8e-20.el5
Sendmail RPM is sendmail-8.13.8-8.1.el5_7

When I test OpenSSL connectivity, I am able to connect to the IMAP  
server I want to poll and also to the local MTA.

openssl s_client -connect pod51011.outlook.com:993
openssl s_client -starttls smtp -connect localhost:25

Both of these commands open connections, I have attached a text file  
showing the complete output.

Fetchmail fails with an error that I do not understand. The error  
states there is an unknown protocol. The command and error output is  
immediately below, and farther down I have given output from fetchmail  
-V.

I would be grateful for any assistance that can be provided to resolve  
this issue.

Thank you
John


[otrs< at >tki-c01 ~]$  /usr/bin/fetchmail -vvv -a --ssl
fetchmail: 6.3.6 querying pod51011.outlook.com (protocol IMAP) at Wed  
04 Jan 2012 06:59:46 PM EST: poll started
fetchmail: running openssl s_client -connect  %h:%p (host  
po