[Gllug] Fetchmail from ISP

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 21 Nov, wendy carr wrote:
> 
>  Thank you very much.
> I checked the user+hostname combination just now and
> it seems to work with my ISP , demon.
> Also when i try to run the fetchmail in daemon mode
> i.e #fetchmail -kvd 120 pop3.isp.co.uk it asks for
> password, although i have put it on the .fetchmailrc.
> Any idea ?
> 
> Cheers

   As you can see I am also with Demon. Demon provide an extra section in
the header to make it easier to split the multiple mailboxes, and Fetchmail
provides a special configuration to match. The current configuration for my
local mailserver running Debian in daemon mode is

Change /etc/default/fetchmail to point at new location
CONFFILE=/etc/fetchmailrc



chmod 0600 owner fetchmail group nogroup /etc/fetchmailrc


set postmaster person at localhost
set bouncemail
defaults:
  antispam 501 550 553 554 571
  batchlimit 100
poll pop3.demon.co.uk proto SDPS aka mailstore no dns:
        localdomains mydomain.demon.co.uk my_private_network_name
        envelope Received
        user mydomain pass my_password is * smtphost localhost


   You may need to insert the word fetchall after the * .
   I first tried to get it working in parallel with an existing working
system, but it failed to run in Daemon mode if I added the word keep .


-- 
Chris Bell


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