getmail (fetchmail-look-a-like) + cyrus
Hi,
Recently I installed a bells-and-whistles mailserver on a Debian Sarge
box, acoording to the howto at
http://www.web-cyradm.org/documentation/debian_sarge-cyrus-howto.pdf
It runs quite fine (using Postfix-mysql, Cyrus, Web-cyradm, ...) but now I
want to get some mail over pop3 (from my provider) and deliver it to a
mailbox on the debian box. Postfix is configured to deliver it's mail to
cyrus.
I found that fetchmail should be a bit insecure, so I decided to try
Getmail (http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/). Should be easy to configure
too.
My idea is to forward the mail with smtp to localhost to a specified mail
address. Then the message should proceed the normal way (amavis virus and
spam filtering and deliver with cyrus). Because I only found procmail,
mailbox and maildir configurations for getmail on the internet, I tried to
use this home-brew configuration
Make a user getmailuser
In homedir, create ./getmail/getmailrc file
getmailrc file content section destination
[destination]
type = MDA_external
path = /usr/cyrus/bin/deliver
arguments = ("-m the.existing.cyrus.user")
when I try to run "getmail" as getmailuser, I get this error message:
Delivery error (command deliver 11252 error (75, couldn't connect to
lmtpd: Permission denied))
It also says the message is retrieved succesfully, but not delivered.
Running as root (with appropiate getmail options) isn't succesfull too:
Delivery error (command deliver 11260 error (127, exec of command deliver
failed (refuse to invoke external commands as root or GID 0 by default)))
The question: How to get getmail forward to smtp with a mail address, or
to cyrus (quite bad, because then no virusscanning is done)
TNX in advance, Corné
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