?Fetchmail? Please...

[Heinz09]

A very nice person told me to use fetchmail. What I read is exactly what I want done.

eg.
user1@extmailserver -> user1@intmailserver -> pop client
user2@extmailserver -> user2@intmailserver -> pop client


yum install fetchmail


no problem, but what now?

I searched, but didn't quite find what I was looking for...

PS: This will run as an internal mail server, they have broadband they just want a bit less congestion and a bit more mail filtering.

My Config is as follows:
OS: CentOS 4.4 32bit
ISPConfig for them to get their mail from
and a running system :)

[falko]

You must configure /etc/fetchmailrc next and restart fetchmail.

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showpost.php?p=34140&postcount=2

[Heinz09]

The moment I run fetchmail from the console it just says

fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified.


this happened after I edited the /etc/fetchmailrc

[falko]

What's in /etc/fetchmailrc?

[Heinz09]

Here goes... [Feel free to correct me :)]


set postmaster root
set no bouncemail

defaults:
timeout 300
antispam -1
batchlimit 100

poll pop3.telkomsa.net protocol POP3 user "[username]" there with password "[password]" is web1_hvz here


So ok... what did I do wrong?

[falko]

How do you run fetchmail? Did you start the fetchmail daemon:

/etc/init.d/fetchmail start

or did you simply run

fetchmail on the shell?

[Heinz09]

:eek: It seems that I found what might be causing it, I am just not sure how to go about fixing it...

/etc/init.d/fetchmail start
bash: /etc/init.d/fetchmail: no such file or directory


So it doesn't seem to be there where it is suppose to be, but I can run the fetchmail on it's own. Any ideas?

[falko]

:eek: It seems that I found what might be causing it, I am just not sure how to go about fixing it...


So it doesn't seem to be there where it is suppose to be, but I can run the fetchmail on it's own. Any ideas?
So from your answer I assume that you simply ran fetchmail and not the fetchmail daemon. In that case, you don't need /etc/fetchmailrc, but must place a file .fetchmailrc (that looks like /etc/fetchmailrc) in the user's homedir.

[Heinz09]

Let's say that I do WANT fetchmail to run as a deamon. Since it is for a couple of accounts 60, I kinda want it as automated as possible.

[falko]

I don't know if there's a fetchmail daemon for CentOS (I know there's one for Debian). But you could create a cron job for each user that fetches mails every 5 minutes or so:

crontab -e (must be run as the user for which you want to fetch mails)
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail