On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 02:34, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:24:04PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Jan Ulrich Hasecke([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > preconnect "mailfilter" > > > > > > Mh, my fetchmail hangs when I set this option: > > > > > > preconnect '/usr/bin/mailfilter -M /home/juh/.mailfilterrc' > > man mailfilter > > > > default Mailfilter tries to read $HOME/.mailfilterrc > > I also don't seem to be getting any response from mailfilter. > > Who does the preconnect command run as? > > My first assumption is that it runs as fetchmail, in which case $HOME > is /var/run/fetchmail on my default Debian setup, if I read my passwd > file right. Trying to read and write to my personal account would > likely only cause trouble. > > My second thought was that it runs as the local user you have > indicated in your fetchmail config file. .fetchmailrc man page says > nothing explicit, but since all the examples just say mailfilter, I > figured maybe this would work. > > Anyway, I have .mailfilterrc in my home directory, the one of the user > indicated in fetchmailrc. I did /etc/init.d/fetchmail restart, but I > see no sign of mailfilter; there is no mention of it in any log I've > checked, and no sign of the output mailfilterlog file either. > > I've done two things that might matter: > > fetchmailrc says > preconnect fetchmail > not > preconnect "fetchmail" > as in most examples. > > And .mailfilterrc uses ~/ notation > LOGFILE=~/Mail/mailfilterlog > > But shouldn't I at least get an error message?
".mailfilterrc" has to be in the ~ of the user that runs fetchmail. Thus, I don't run fetchmail as a daemon; I run it from cron, and comment out the DAEMON directive in *my* ~/.fetchmailrc. Thus, I can put .mailfilterrc in my ~. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Fair is where you take your cows to be judged." Unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
