DL e-mail from another POP3 into cPanel

[kemis]

Our IT department at work has an extremely lousy implementation of SpamAssassin.

I want to setup my VPS to somehow check/download all e-mail from my work's POP3 account so that my cPanel server can run its own filters/spam checking on those e-mails.

I would then check my POP3 e-mail from my cPanel server instead of from work.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Matt

[Lyttek]

I take it you cannot simply forward emails from work to your preferred address (using a forward, not by forwarding individual messages)...

[kemis]

Nope, our IT sucks. They refuse to forward, so I'm forced to work around that fact.

As it turns out, my VPS hosting company mentioned a program called "fetchmail" to me. Evidently, this is a very popular program that does exactly what I'm needing. (Incidently, fetchmail is used in Horde to get mail from a different account, but it can't be set to run automatically as far as I can tell.)

It took me about 3 hours to muck around with the user guide and find other people's sample files, but here's what I did:

1. Logged into my VPS as root.
2. Eventually created a "~/.fetchmailrc" file structurally identical to this:

set daemon 120  #run as daemon & poll every 2 minutes
set logfile = "/var/log/fetchmail.log"  #log is only output when no terminal
set no bouncemail  #not sure
set no spambounce  #not sure
set invisible  #makes the e-mail still look like it's to/from the original?

poll mail.mywork.com  #pop3 mail server
        with protocol POP3 no dns  #access via POP3, not sure about the dns
	#POP3 user/pass, send to diff e-mail...
        username user1 password u1pass is user1@myowndomain.com
	username user2 password u2pass is user2@myowndomain.com
  	username user3 password u3pass is user3@myowndomain.com
	username user4 password u4pass is user4@myowndomain.com

flush  #remove downloaded messages from original server
fetchall  #get all even, if already seen
fetchlimit 0  #no fetch limit
fetchsizelimit 0  #no size limitations
;

3. Then, I just ran fetchmail by typing its name at the command line!

I still need to figure out how to put it in my startup scripts so it's sure to run when my server is rebooted. This is a basic Linux task I've never mastered. Can someone help me with it?

-- Matt

[lloyd_tennison]

DAEMON MODE

http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/f...il-man.html#12

Now, just trying to see if can be setup so each user can do it. Or - does anyone know if can be setup to check for an include file, if exists and run it? That way, only one file and no admin time needed to update.

[kemis]

I know about the daemon mode. That's how I'm running it now. I just don't know how to make it so that the daemon starts automatically when the server does. I know I need to put a startup script in the init.d or something, but not sure what to name the script, which runlevel, permissions, exact statements, etc.

Thanks!
Matt

[chirpy]

Simplest way is to put the required statements into your own script and then call that script from within /etc/rc.d/rc.local with:

/path-to/my/script.sh

[kemis]

It works! Thanks so much for the tip on the rc.local file!

-- Matt