Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of howto/SetupFetchmail

Timestamp:

Apr 14, 2009, 1:36:26 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

samwz@…

Comment:

Suggestions to changes in the presented configuration

howto/SetupFetchmail

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 Depending on which fetchmail (macports or OSX) is used you might want to change the pathnames to better reflect you system set-up.
 
+''Note:''
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+ * The directory {{{/var/run}}} (also {{{/opt/local/var/run}}} ?) is wiped every boot. I suggest using {{{(/opt/local)/var/fetchmail}}} instead of {{{(/opt/local)/var/run/fetchmail}}}.
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 === Step 3: ''set-up configuration'' ===
 
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 As a starting point you can use [attachment:fetchmailrc]. You will need to add all your mail source to [attachment:fetchmailrc].
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+''Note:''
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+ * The "ID-file" is used to store the message IDs of messages already downloaded. If you use the {{{keep}}} option with one of your mail sources to ''not'' delete messages on the server after downloading them the ID-file is used to prevent downloading these messages again on the next run of fetchmail. Do not put this file in a directory under {{{(/opt/local)/var/run}}} as suggested in [attachment:fetchmailrc] as it will be deleted the next time your machine (re)boots which will result in duplicating your emails!
 
 === Step 4: ''starting the daemon'' ===
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 The attached [attachment:Restart_Fetchmail.command] command will stop and restart fetchmail which forces a re-read of the configuration files and triggers an immediate mail collection - quite helpful while debugging the system.
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+''Note:''
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+ * The logfile defined in [attachment:fetchmailrc] can only be used without {{{--nodetach}}} (see [http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-man.html#24 man fetchmail]). With the configuration currently presented here everything will be logged to the system log.
 
 === Step 5: ''testing the deamon'' ===