[SOLVED] Automatically pop external accounts - zmprov script

[techhelp]

I have tried running the script in tmp/temp, an in many combinations. It appears that the file commands.zmprov does not get created.

If anyone has a thought it would be nice to hear from you.

[uxbod]

Run the zmprov command from the command line and ensure it is returning output; you have to debug things a little yourself

[techhelp]

I kind of figured that this would need to be the case. I guess I will have to learn more. Although the benefits of this will be that I will know and trust the install more

Thanks!
now to see what happens when I enter things in at
prov>

[patit]

also modify

for ACCOUNT in `zmprov gaa ${DOMAIN}`

to

for ACCOUNT in `zmprov -l gaa ${DOMAIN}`

[techhelp]

I will keep learning and trying, but I have resorted to fetchmail for now.
Will try the next thing later and report back.
Cheers!

[pinoy_steal]

any update on this script. Thanks

[techhelp]

I have not looked back. I saw a kink in the design of the end user needing to click on "get mail" from the web interface and not having the option work on the desktop client. Not being able to figure out the auto polling made me look to fetchmail.

running a cron job in the background is more suitable for what I was needing, too bad it is not included in Zimbra, I am configuring it through webadmin. My understanding is that webadmin is not the best option for my Ubuntu 8.04lts server, but I am only using it for doing these two tasks. Configure fetchmail and the cron job.

As I feel more comfortable I am doing cli via putty....

[rbreck]

I ran gregg1ep00's script with uxbod's modifications and can confirm that it worked great on my 6.0.7 FOSS server.

I've got a domain with about 20 users, all whom have external pop accounts setup and now they check automagically every 60 seconds, wether or not they're logged into the web interface.

Thanks guys!

[leSasch]

Originally Posted by rbreck

I ran gregg1ep00's script with uxbod's modifications and can confirm that it worked great on my 6.0.7 FOSS server.

I've got a domain with about 20 users, all whom have external pop accounts setup and now they check automagically every 60 seconds, wether or not they're logged into the web interface.

Thanks guys!

Hi,

I also ran the script - but no automatic download of external email.
Is anything else to do (except running the script)?

Regards,
Sascha

[rbreck]

Originally Posted by leSasch

I also ran the script - but no automatic download of external email. Is anything else to do (except running the script)?

Check the value of zimbraDataSourcePollingInterval to see if the script is actually updating it...

 zmprov gds foo@bar.com | grep zimbraDataSourcePollingInterval

If it is 60 (or whatever you're trying to set it to), then I'd assume the script works and I'd check if you can pop down manually from the account by hitting send/receive in the web client.

If it's still set to 0, which I believe is the default, then the script's not working. There are a few different versions in the thread, make sure you've got the right one?