I run fetchmail to download all my emails from remote mail server to my linux server.
But every time when i run fetchmail -v i am getting a warning that " Running as root is discouraged"
I just want to know whether it is unsecure to run fetchmail as root user.
I have installed release CentOS 5.5 w/ fetchmail services. I've already configured the /.fetchmailrc in the correct format that I've learned from topics and I've checked also the sedmail running status. When I invoke the #fetchmail command this often happens:
fetchmail: WARNING: : Running as root is discouraged.
2 messages for user1 at mx.mailserver.com.ca: (1 of 2) (4353 octets) .....flushed
I have configured two NIC 's One for the public IP and another for the local network, I've tried to use the two IP's in the POP3 and SMTP settings of Mozilla Thunderbird but still user1 can't get messages.
Is it possible to using 2 envelope options on fetchmail? Here is fetchmailrc configuration :
envelope "Envelope-To"
envelope "X-Apparently-To"
How to configure fetchmail in RHEL 5.5
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View 1 Replies View Relatedusing these fetchmail and postfix for fetching mail and sending mail ...... Instead of using incoming and outgoing like smtp and pop3 in outlook , why we use fetchmail and postfix mail server in linux and forward this to local windows client Outlook ..
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to configure the fetchmail and I have this line on the configuration file
poll other.mail.server interval 4
user "otherusername" there with password "otherpasswd"
How I do it? Is "mail.server" my isp server? and after configuration how do I fetch mail?
I can't fetchmail form my company server to local PC. It gives error
fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged.
fetchmail: starting fetchmail 6.3.6 daemon
fetchmail: connection to 202.137.236.11op3 [202.137.236.11/110] failed: Connection timed out.
fetchmail: POP3 connection to 202.137.236.11 failed: Connection timed out
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: connection to gmail.comop3 [74.125.236.56/110] failed: Connection timed out.
I am trying to connect but it can't.
Could you tell me some programs for mail retrieval like fetchmail?
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy client has finally had enough of being attacked via SPAM/Viruses and having his single email account for his company being destroyed. Since it is a single account and he does not want to add additional accounts or create a new one(mail is hosted by ISP), I wanted to ask the forum on their opinion on using Fetchmail to download the POP3 mail and having it piped through SMAM Assassion or DSpam and or CLAM_AV or F-PROT. In addition to that I am going to use a corporate strength anti-virus such as F-prot(Been using for years) and really put this email through a microscope. I also was thinking of just blocking out all domains other than his clients list of domains so in other words block all and allow just the domains that we know are valid and are only from his clients. It is super restrictive but what I believe will end his issue.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI need to ask you how canIi make some fetchmail jobs to download mails from my gmail account into my mail account in my own server? My server is :
Linux Centos 5.4
Postfix Mail Server
I make a file named .fetchmailrc in my home directory and set its permissions to 755and the content of this file is:
set postmaster "postmaster"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
poll imap.googlemail.com:993 protocol imap username "username@gmail.com" password "password"
I think something is not completed, I need to make that fetch to a specific user only, not all users.
I have fetch mail in my root directory like this:
set no bouncemail
set postmaster postmaster@dot.com.gh
set logfile /var/log/fetchmail
poll pop.teledataict.com
protocol pop3
localdomains dot.com.gh
archive dot.com.gh
no dns
envelope X-Envelope-To:
qvirtual dot.com.gh
user "maildot3@teledataict.com" there
pass "mail"
is *
here forcecr
nokeep
flush
dropdelivered
fetchall
This works perfectly as I want. But right now, what I want is, I want fetchmail to download mails for more than one or several accounts in different domains and different pop servers. How can I improve this rc file to accomplish my task?
Actual I need to configure fetchmail and postfix in linux pc to get mail in outlook.
View 1 Replies View RelatedThe common wisdom seems to be to setup an SMTP server (say postfix) so that connections either coming from the same host or where the end delivery is local can do so without using any authentication mechanism.
This will for example allow fetchmail to deliver fetched mail locally on port 25 (without logging in) for any user.
However, what if I setup the SMTP server to force every incoming connection to be authenticated regardless if the end delivery is local or relayed and regardless where the connection comes from.
Is it possible to configure fetchmail to use a password when doing the local delivery?
(I haven't been able to find any such configuration options in fetchmail.)
I have Ubuntu and I want to setup a mailserver. I use fetchmail to fetch mail But I wanted to configure fetchmail with fetchmailconf. I know, I can edit the configfile, but I wanted to use fetchmailconf. According to the man of fetchmail, fetchmailconf is very handy.
In synaptic, I installed fetchmail 6.3.2.2Ubuntu2.3 and I wanted to install fetchmailconf 6.3.2.2Ubuntu2 : well it didnt work
fetchmailconf 6.3.2.2Ubuntu2 needs fetchmail 6.3.2.2Ubuntu2. So, no worries: I searched the internet for fetchmailconf 6.3.2.2Ubuntu2.3, but I couldn't find any. Same with fetchmail6.3.2.2Ubuntu2
First of all, I want to flame synaptic for supplying 2 different versions for 2 pieces of software that only work with eachother.
Second: where can I find 2 matching versions? Or fix synaptic or maybe someone has a really cool solution?
I use fetchmail to get mails from POP3, but I get an error if I use SSL.
.fetchmailrc
poll pop.server.de with proto POP3
user xxx there with password xxx ssl is "xxx" smtphost xxx
This cause this error:
[Code].....
It looks are some packages missing or something like that.
I have one centOS 5.5 box recieving mails done by fetchmail service and it has a 5 client pc's, is there any way that the CentOS box able to deliver the mails to the 5 local network users that is using thunderbird as MUA.
the mails is stuck in /var/spool/mail as I verified in the webmin sendmail settings
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I use this command to fetching mail from gmail it work good but it does not retrieved mails from server as I read from manual.
Quote:
fetchmail -d0 -F -K pop.gmail.com
What is wrong and what should I do?
Is It possible to change a process running in root-user to non-root-user by setting suid / uid / euid / gid etc... I so please instruct how, when and wat to set in order to change a process running in root-user to non-root user
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Code:
#!/bin/bash
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[Code]....
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