Re: [Nolug] Fetchmail problem

Ron, thanks for the feedback; are there significant differences if I
use IMAP?

Also, I don't see how giving more time for timeout would exacerbate
the problem given that the problem is not all messages are being
downloaded. If it has 5 seconds and I change it to 300, doesn't that
mean I'm allowing more time for the message download to complete?

Thanks,
Jeremiah

On Jul 12, 2008, at 6:35 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:

> On 07/12/08 20:18, Jeremiah T. Gray wrote:
>> I've got an email server running with postfix, fetchmail,
>> procmail, and
>> dovecot that someone else set up. As it stands, fetchmail should be
>> pulling emails off a hosted account, but it is leaving some/many
>> behind
>> for a handful of users (not all). A cron'ed perl script calls
>> fetchmail
>> (supposedly), but when I tried running the script by hand right
>> after it
>> was called by cron, I got an error. However, when cron invokes it, I
>> can see fetchmail pop up in top.
>>
>> Obviously the problem could be the script, which I will troubleshoot
>> tomorrow, but I wanted to see if anyone on the list could recommend
>> alternative possible fixes. I already tried changing the timeout,
>> which
>> was set for only 5 seconds, and I increased the frequency of
>> execution
>> in the crontab entry, but neither seemed to improve the situation.
>
> Those would exacerbate the problem!
>
>> Please reply if you have any insight as to how to properly setup
>> fetchmail to ....fetch mail.
>
> Sure. I've been using it successfully for 3+ years.
>
> First I create this intermediary process, so that I can halt mail
> fetching at will without editing crontab.
>
> $ cat /usr/local/bin/run_fetchmail.sh
> #!/bin/sh
>
> if [ -e /tmp/.backup.LOCK ]; then exit 0; fi
>
> /usr/bin/fetchmail -S haggis $1
>
>
> Here's the relevant section of my crontab:
> #!/bin/sh
> MAILTO=""
> # m h dom mon dow command
> */5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/run_fetchmail.sh
>
> And here's my fetchmail config:
> $ cat ~/.fetchmailrc
> set syslog
> set postmaster "me"
> set no bouncemail
> set no spambounce
> set properties ""
> poll pop.east.cox.net with proto POP3
> user 'ron.l.johnson' there with password 'blahblah' is 'me' here
>
>
> Each user on the system has their own similar crontab entry and
> fetchmailrc file, where the "minute" is slightly altered, so the ISP
> doesnt get hammered every 5 minutes. ISTM that this is non-scalable
> and suitable only for SOHO & home environments, but it is flawlessly
> rock solid for me,
>
> --
> Ron Johnson, Jr.
> Jefferson LA USA
>
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