Re: Starting fetchmail on boot (runing as user)
add file getmail (or what else U want) un /etc/cron.d/
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tanna:/etc/network# cat /etc/cron.d/getmail
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# /etc/cron.d/getmail: crontab fragment for getting mail
#-- Get mail every 5 minutes.
0-59/5 * * * * root if [ -x /usr/bin/fetchmail ]; then /usr/bin/fetchmail -a --syslog 1> /dev/null 2>>/var/log/fetchmail.err; fi
#-- U can filtered them before !
#0-59/5 * * * * root if [ -x /usr/bin/mailfilter ]; then /usr/bin/mailfilter 1> /dev/null 2>>/var/log/mailfilter.err; fi; if [ -x /usr/bin/fetchmail ]; then /usr/bin/fetchmail -a --syslog 1> /dev/null 2>>/var/log/fetchmail.err; fi
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and update /root/.fetchmailrc with any entry U nee
poll <popserver_addr> protocol pop3 username <popserver_login> is <localuser> password <popserver_passwd> nokeep
where
- popserver_addr is the pop server name
- popserver_login is the login used to get mail back from this server
- popserver_passwd is the password used to get mail back from this server
- localuser is the local user login
!! Remove < and > . I only use this to enlight the variables parameters.
The mails will be retreived from <popserver_login> account on <popserver_addr> and
localy delivered in localuser mailbox in /var/spool/mail/localuser.
Hope that can help !
François
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 00:30:13 -0300
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, stan wrote:
> > I'm migrating mail services to individula user machines.
> >
> > I want to use fetchmail to retrieve the mail for each user (runing
> > fetchmail as that user).
> >
> > What;s "The Debian Way" of starting up these user instances of fetchmail?
>
> There isn't one, but see the BTS entries for fetchmail (there is a bug there
> with some ideas).
>
> Personally, I just run "while true; do fetchmail ; sleep 10m ; done" in a
> detached "screen" (see the screen package).
>
> --
> "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
> them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
> where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
> Henrique Holschuh
>
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