[SOLVED] Receiving mail from MultiPOP3 Server

[erre]

Hello,
I installed zimbra on Debian etch and every thing was ok, but I World like retrieves the mail from multipop server instead of via direct… how can I do it.
Thanks a lot.

[phoenix]

Welcome to the forums.

You can either use fetchmail to get your POP3 mail or use the inbuilt feature on the Preference tab to get external mail. The feature in Zimbra doesn't have the ability to get the mail on schedule yet, that will be in version 5, but it will fetch the mail when you hit 'Get Mail'.

[mmorse]

That would be the now implemented: Bug 14527 - Periodic POP and IMAP aggregation and frequency and limit controls for same

else, fetchmail + webmin
(you can manually run the 'get pop mail' on each account, but I don't remember the syntax it's so late/early in the morning)

[tobru]

Hi

Ok, I see that Bug 14527 is implemented now. But how to use this feature? Can you explain it in a few words?

Thanks a lot
Tobias

[jholder]

It's in 5.0

[tobru]

Yes, I see. I have 5.0 RC1 installed...
As written in the Bug, I executed

[zimbra@zimbraqa1 ~]$ zmprov gc default | grep zimbraDataSourcePollingInterval
[zimbra@zimbraqa1 ~]$ zmprov mc default zimbraDataSourcePollingInterval 60
[zimbra@zimbraqa1 ~]$ zmprov gc default | grep zimbraDataSourcePollingInterval
zimbraDataSourcePollingInterval: 60
[zimbra@zimbraqa1 ~]$

Does that mean, that every configured "External Account" is being checked every 60 second?
Can I configure this for every Account through the GUI?

[gmbyron]

Hello,
I have same question - how do you configure auto polling?

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by gmbyron

Hello,
I have same question - how do you configure auto polling?

Did you look at the post immediately above yours?

[gmbyron]

Assuming that 60 is 60seconds (59 and less gives error about 1m), entering that command and waiting 60 seconds didn't help.Mail still wasn't pulled.

[gmbyron]

Okay, here is a solution for all of you. I don't know why exactly it worked that way but it worked.. Apparently default COS won't apply to existing accounts so I had to change it on account basis

zimbra@mail$ zmprov
prov> mds [username (email without domain)] [data source/ext. pop account name] zimbraDataSourcePollingInterval 60

repeat mds for every account and data source.