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Alan

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Registered: 2012-08-14

Posts: 2

Problem with fetchmail + maildrop

I've been using Ubuntu Linux for about four years reasonably happily, but was keen to have more control and so switched to Arch when I got a new laptop yesterday.  So this is a real newbie question...  Everything going smoothly except for my email set-up, which I copied straight across from the old machine this afternoon.

I use mutt with fetchmail and maildrop (which I got for Arch by installing courier-maildrop).  I copied the relevant configuration files across; with a few details omitted, they are as follows:

fetchmailrc:

set daemon 120
set postmaster "myname"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""

poll server-name with proto IMAP port 143
     user 'server-identity' there with password 'password' is 'myname' here
     fetchall

mda "/usr/bin/maildrop"

The .mailfilter file is massive.  It still works on the old machine...here is a working shorter version:

DEFAULT="$HOME/Maildir/.Inbox"

AUCTEX="$HOME/Maildir/.auctex"
GSLL="$HOME/Maildir/.gsll"
MAXIMA="$HOME/Maildir/.Maxima"
SBCL="$HOME/Maildir/.sbcl"
SSRN="$HOME/Maildir/.ssrn"

logfile "$HOME/Maildir/maildrop.log"

if (/^To:.*competitiononlineforum@yahoogroups.com/ || /^CC:.*competitiononlineforum@yahoogroups.com/ || /\
Subject:.*(BE OUR AFRICAN.*RESPOND URGENT)/ || /^From:.*ezine@facultyfocusemail.com/ || /^From:.*mikehayw\
oodart.co.uk/ || /^From:.*support@topsteptrader.com/ || /^From:.*Marketingupdatetoday.com/ || /^From:.*pr\
emiertyping.com/ || /^From:.*freshbusinessmail.com/ || /^From.*narskips@gmail.com/ )
{
  to /dev/null
}
if (/^From:.*maxima-request@math.utexas.edu/)
{
  to $MAXIMA
}

if (/^From:.*(@ssrn|@SSRN|@publish.ssrn)/)
{
  to $SSRN
}
 
if (/^From:.*auctex/ || /^To:.*auctex/ || /^Subject:.*AUCTeX/:D)
{
  to $AUCTEX
}           
            
if (/^From:.*gsll/ || /^To:.*gsll/)
{
  to $GSLL   
}            
             
if (/^From:.*sbcl-help-request@lists/ || /From:.*sbcl-help@lists/ || /To:.*sbcl-help@lists/ )
{
  to $SBCL
}

to $DEFAULT

The relevant mail folders were all copied across along with everything else.  When I run mutt I can see the old mail.  But when I run fetchmail nothing happens -- it's running but it doesn't collect any mail, so that I can see it mounting up if I use a browser to access it.  There is nothing in the ~/Maildir/maildrop.log file.

I've been bashing my head against this for several hours now.  Lots of Googling and searching around the Arch forums have not enlightened me.

If anyone is able to shed any light upon this, or to give me a useful pointer, I will be very grateful.

Thanks

Alan

Member

Registered: 2012-08-14

Posts: 2

Re: Problem with fetchmail + maildrop

Doh... fixed it.  Just in case anyone has the same problem, the permissions on the .mailfilter file were wrong.  Should be 600. Rather confusingly, this clearly is not the case under Ubuntu.