Fetchmail and Zimbra

[thomi]

hi all

have read all about fetchmail and zimbra... and the solution in following thread is great... marcmac's zmfetchercfg

after that steps i run:
fetchmail -v -c -f /opt/zimbra/conf/my_fetchrc

i get:
/opt/zimbra/.fetchmail.pid: Permission denied
fetchmail: lock creation failed.

the problem is, that the zimbra user can't write directly into /opt/zimbra

so, i created /home/zimbra_fetchmail and chowned it to zimbra:zimbra
sudo mkdir /home/zimbra_fetchmail
sudo chown zimbra:zimbra /home/zimbra_fetchmail

then is used following command, including special pidfile for fetchmail:
fetchmail -v -c -f /opt/zimbra/conf/my_fetchrc --pidfile /home/zimbra_fetchmail/.fetchmail.pid

now it works fine... removing -c and all my emails from external accounts are in my zimbra account..

one little error, i get at the end of fetchmail transfer:
fetchmail: Cannot open fetchids file /opt/zimbra/.fetchids_ for writing: Permission denied
fetchmail: normal termination, status 0
fetchmail: Cannot open fetchids file /opt/zimbra/.fetchids_ for writing: Permission denied

i think this is the same problem as with the pidfile, cause the zimbra user can't write directly to /opt/zimbra...

so.. i run this command, including special idfile parameter:
fetchmail -v -f /opt/zimbra/conf/my_fetchrc --pidfile /home/zimbra_fetchmail/.fetchmail.pid --idfile /home/zimbra_fetchmail/.fetchids_

now, all works without errors...

running now above, last command as a daemon mode:
fetchmail -d 300 -f /opt/zimbra/conf/my_fetchrc --pidfile /home/zimbra_fetchmail/.fetchmail.pid --idfile /home/zimbra_fetchmail/.fetchids_ --syslog

with daemon mode it works fine... but one question
how can i start the fetchmail daemon mode on system boot with user zimbra?


have nice fetching
thomi

[thomi]

Hi all

back again, with a zimbra fetchmail question..

the above works fine.. for me

i tried now this as zimbra user:

crontab - e and add folowing lines:

# fetchmail
* * * * * fetchmail -f /opt/zimbra/conf/my_fetchrc --pidfile /home/zimbra_fetchmail/.fetchmail.pid --idfile /home/zimbra_fetchmail/.fetchids_ --syslog

now i get this error in /var/log/zimbra.log:

Oct 7 11:29:02 zimbra fetchmail[23901]: execvp(openssl) failed
Oct 7 11:29:02 zimbra fetchmail[23869]: socket error while fetching from mailbox1@mail.domain.ch
Oct 7 11:29:02 zimbra fetchmail[23869]: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
Oct 7 11:29:03 zimbra fetchmail[23926]: execvp(openssl) failed
Oct 7 11:29:03 zimbra fetchmail[23869]: socket error while fetching from mailbox2@mail.domain.ch
Oct 7 11:29:03 zimbra fetchmail[23869]: Query status=2 (SOCKET)


thanks for help
thomi