Topic: Multipop rather then Multidrop

[Adam Rykala]

I'm looking to implement multipop in e-smith 5 - using fetchmail to drop multiple POP3 acct emails into two users mailboxes...

Does anyone know of a contrib rpm that works with V5 or is it better I hack it together myself by editing /etc/fetchmail?

Adam

[Robert Heaton]

If you get multipop working by editing /etc/fetchmail or by RPM please let me know, I could do with that feature to!

Kind Regards,
Rob.

[Adam Rykala]

Im going to have a look tonight at /etc/fetchmail and /etc/crontab. If I get any success I'll post it here but I would prefer an e-smith rpm that works because

1) It'll tie into the theme

2) I haven't got to worry about the config software overwriting changes....

I've already had to write a few scripts to correct a ppp bug I've found that writes an incorrect modem script.....

Adam

[Adam Rykala]

well /etc/fetchmailrc has a syntax like


   default proto pop3
   poll pop.server.tld
      user "abc123" there with pass "password" is "jon" here
with "jon" being the login on your system.

Run "fetchmail" to let fetchmail retrieve the mails. Or you can run
"fetchmail -d 600" to have fetchmail retrieve your mails every 10 minutes.

Apparently there is a bug in /etc/services in v5 that lists pop3 as pop-3 so you may need to add port 110 to the lines

I don't know how savvy you are in fetchmail but the file is simple. I'll let you know

Adam

[Scott Smith]

Search the contrib RPMs. There was a multipop contrib for fetchmail posted a while back. Probably not updated for 5.0 yet, but you could either update or use as a starting point.

Scott

[Adam Rykala]

Multipop in the Contrib RPM's here works LIKE A CHARM on 5.0!

[Adam Rykala]

edit /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/services/template-begin

edit the line for pop-3 to pop3

do the same to /etc/services!

[Adam Rykala]

oh

and xinetd.conf too

[Adam Rykala]

edit /etc/startmail and its template in /etc/e-smith/template/etc/startmail/S20body

change the bit

' su qmailr -s /bin/bash -c /etc/fetchmail'

to just

/etc/fetchmail

[Rich Lafferty]

This problem and other critical mail issues have been discovered and fixed in SMEServer-5.0_Update2, which Mitel strongly recommends all users of SME Server 5.0 apply immediately.

Details are available at

  http://www.e-smith.org/release/5.0/status/

--Rich