Re: How to automate email retrieval

[Venkatesh Raghavan <raghavan@example.com>]

Hi all,

When I do fetchmail on my from my linux client
Japanese characters do not get displayed
correctly (mojibake again). My mailspool on the
mailservers contains messages that are not euc-jp

Is there a way of converting the messages to euc-jp encoding
while doing fetchmail, like piping to nkf.

Thank you.

Raghavan
Osaka City University



Tobias Diedrich wrote:

> Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
>
> > >Yup.  Do something like `fetchmail -d 120'.
> >
> > I've gotten fetchmail to work as a daemon, but I don't think this means it
> > gets restarted when the machine reboots or keep going when you logout or
> > even that it restarts itself it it dies for some reason.
>
> 1. It keeps going when you logout
> 2. If it dies it does not restart
> 3. You have to restart it on reboot
>
> > I'm new to linux sysadmin and I'm just wondering what is the "proper" way of
> > getting fetchmail to always be up and running as a deamon. If it to ask each
> > user to make a cron job or is there some way I can do this as root and have
> > fetchmail run system wide for each user?
>
> At first I had a normal modem/isdn dialup account. So to automatically
> fetch mail for my brother and me I made a script like this:
> #!/bin/sh
> while true; do
>   fetchmail
>   sleep 10m
> done
> This was started in /etc/ppp/ip-up with startproc and killed in
> /etc/ppp/ip-down with killproc.
>
> In this example fetchmail is being called as root and /root/.fetchmailrc
> was configured to fetch mail from both mail-accounts and deliver it to two
> local users.
>
> Problem here was that sometimes one of the mailservers was kinda slow and
> you had to be root to change account data. (Of course this doesn't matter
> much with only to users)
>
> I then modified this script to start one fetchmail for each user with both
> running simultaneously.
>
> Then I discovered the daemon option and tried out that one (starting
> fetchmail for each user as a daemon in ip-up and killing it in ip-down).
>
> Now I have a ADSL-flatrate, so I am forwarding my mail to my system
> instead of polling mail with fetchmail.
>
> What approach you want to use depends on your internet connection type,
> the number of users on your system and which you like most ^_-
>
> -- Tobias
>
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