Fetchmail
Fetchmail for SME Server
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.
Before install, check latest version here and replace filenames in step 2 & 3 if necessary.
Installation
1. Log in (with username root) to the SMEserver console.
2. Download Fetchmail from Schirrm's site:
wget http://www.schirrms.net/files/smeserver-fetchmail-1.3.5-01.noarch.rpm
3. Install Fetchmail:
yum localinstall smeserver-fetchmail-1.3.5-01.noarch.rpm
You will get a y/N-question, answer y if it looks fine.
4. 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
5. 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.
If you connect to the SMEserver console by Putty ssh-client (or similar) you can copy and paste the commands (very convenient).
Please note that this was written in april 2007, if the software change then this howto may be outdated.
Please do edit if you find errors or have improvements, but make sure that it works!
Good luck /Per
Bugs
Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla and select the smeserver-fetchmail component or use this link .
If you enable logging for an account in server-manager/fetchmail you will possibly receive mail from Cron Daemon with the subject "Cron <root@YOURSERVER> /etc/startmail". The mail contains only something like this: #********. This is a minor problem and I'm unsure if it's a bug or not. /Per
Tested software version
Host: SMEserver v7.1 with update 3 (7.1.3)
smeserver-fetchmail-1.3.5-01.noarch.rpm