Fetchmail

Fetchmail for SME Server

	Warning:
	Since SME9.2 update and smeserver-qpsmtpd-2.4.0-34.el6.sme.noarch and qpsmtpd-0.96-10.el6.sme.noarch fetchmail is not filtered by spamassassin until a fix is deployed see Bug # bugzilla:10290 fixed in SME10 smeserver-qpsmtpd-2.7.0-7.el7.sme.noarch and qpsmtpd-0.96-21.el7.sme.noarch

Version

Devel 10:

1.6-27

Contrib 10:

1.6-26

Contrib 9:

1.6-15

smeserver-fetchmail

The latest version of smeserver-fetchmail is available in the SME repository, click on the version number(s) for more information.

Maintainer

Schirrm's Studio (software)

Description

• Fetchmail retrieve mails from external mailboxes with many options.

Step-by-step silly HowTo for installation of Fetchmail on SMEserver.

It's intended for Linux-newbies.

Installation

1. Log in (with username root) to the SMEserver console.

2. Install Fetchmail:

• For SME8

yum --enablerepo=smecontribs install smeserver-fetchmail
signal-event console-save

You will get a y/N-question, answer y if it looks fine.

• For SME9

yum --enablerepo=smecontribs install smeserver-fetchmail
signal-event console-save

You will get a y/N-question, answer y if it looks fine.

3. Instructions at the end of previous installation advices the following commands:
"signal-event post-upgrade" and "signal-event reboot"
But you can ignore that and move on

4. In the server-manager, part 'Collaboration' you should find a 'Mails Retrieval' option.

This let you access on the main page of the Fetchmail configuration.

Check installed version

yum info installed smeserver-fetchmail

Uninstall

yum remove smeserver-fetchmail

Additional information

For more info check Schirrm's HowTo here.

To enable detailed logging on a per account basis for troubleshooting purposes do the following:

From the Fetchmail management interface, select mail retrevial, select the required account, set the option for: Do you want to debug this account - YES

Look at the maillog log file a few hours later for possible clues.

To enable detailed logging in Fetchmail (and be able to monitor it after typing /etc/startmail), manually edit /etc/fetchmail and put fetchmail in verbose mode. Then start it with /etc/startmail and check the log with tail -f

Taken from this forum post.

Configuration

if Fetchmail start to load multiple time the same emails, this might be a timeout problem, you should increase the default value (30 second):

/sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop FetchMails timeout 30
/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/fetchmail

If Fetchmail is unable to find te destination host, you can set it here:

/sbin/e-smith/db configuration getprop FetchMails fetchhost
/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/fetchmail

FAQ

Q: What do these strange mails with '#********' from cron mean?
A: If you enabled the debug option for an account in the Mail Retrieval panel in the server-manager you will possibly receive mail from Cron Daemon with the subject "Cron <root@YOURSERVER> /etc/startmail". The mail contains patterns like this: #********. You will stop receiving this mails if you disable debugging for all configured users in the Mail Retrieval panel in the server-manager.

E-mail Retrieval Error

If your ISP does not provide a custom sort field and you experience the following errors occuring when Multidrop is enabled and the "Select Sort Method (for multi-drop)" is set to Default:

fetchmail: warning: multidrop for pop3.mypopserver.com requires envelope option!
fetchmail: warning: Do not ask for support if all mail goes to postmaster!

and/or

fetchmail: warning: multidrop for my.isp.domain requires envelope option! 
fetchmail: warning: Do not ask for support if all mail goes to postmaster! 

Set "Select Sort Method (for multi-drop) to 'Received' or 'for' As described at bugzilla:5602 bugzilla:6483

Bugs

Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla and select the smeserver-fetchmail component or use this link .

ID	Product	Version	Status	Summary (3 tasks) ⇒
9131	SME Contribs	9.0	UNCONFIRMED	fetchmail loop if one mail contains a virus
9107	SME Contribs	9.0	UNCONFIRMED	trouble fetching mails when one of the list is infected
5067	SME Contribs	7.4	CONFIRMED	fetchmail is noisy in /var/log/messges due to pam_unix

Changelog

Only versions released in smecontrib are listed here:

smeserver-fetchmail Changelog: SME 10 (smecontribs)

2022/11/11 Jean-Philippe Pialasse 1.6-26.sme
- Apply locale 2022-11-11 patch

2022/07/28 Jean-Philippe Pialasse 1.6-24.sme
- fix fetchmail restart downloading all emails after reboot [SME: 11979]

thanks to Stefano Zamboni for debuging and original fix.

2022/07/22 Jean-Philippe Pialasse 1.6-23.sme
- apply locale patch 2022-07-22

2021/11/17 Jean-Philippe Pialasse 1.6-22.sme
- fix panel [SME: 11058]

 removed SMTP proxy and blocking option and redirect to Proxy panel

TODO: module cleanup and cleanup of unused properties

2021/10/21 Terry Fage 1.6-21.sme
- fix template 60fetchmail force spamcheck [SME: 10289]

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