Fetchmail on Kolab from Source

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Alexander Schröter <webmaster at computational-chemistry.org>:

> On Friday 17 April 2009 06:29:45 Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
>
>> What is not working when using the instructions? I know I updated them
>> once but of course they might not be up-to-date for 2.2.1 anymore. If
>> I know what is not working I might be able to fix this.
>
> Instructions on the wiki page worked like a charm. Download and  
> Install wasn't
> a problem. Just the configuration is a little unclear to me ... see  
> I just want
> fetchmail so it can be used by the web client ... so i figured I should leave
> my /kolab/.fetchmailrc empty but than I get:
> | fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged.
> | fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified.
> and as far as I can see fetchmail is not running.
>
>> If you configured your external account correctly in the Kolab web
>> client and the button does not download any mails that would be a bug
>> and you should open an issue in the tracker.
>
> OK here is what I did to check my configuration ... From the  
> University we get
> a Horde webmail account so I put in the Information needed. And  
> *tada* worked.
> When I tried the same Configuration I only get the Error-Msg "Fetchmail:
> Fetched 0 messages from Computational-Chemistry.org".

Apperently there are still problems with this features and the current  
configuration. See https://www.intevation.de/roundup/kolab/issue3353  
and add yourself in nosy there if you need information concerning that  
issue.

>
>> The Kolab web client won't create a fetchmailrc file. The
>> functionality offered by Horde is a manual pull by clicking on the
>> "Fetch mail" button. As fetchmail is not included by default on the
>> Kolab server writing a fetchmailrc wouldn't make much sense.
>
> So does Horde use /kolab/bin/fetchmail or is it using some php  
> function? build
> to imitate fetchmail?

The latter. Nevertheless I will need to check that it works. When I'm  
doing that I should probably look at how you could directly integrate  
it with fetchmail assuming you followed the wiki fetchmail instructions.

>
> I actually found a new problem which wasn't there before I cannot create
> Folder, Contacts, Notes, Tasks and so on. So I figured this might be  
> the reason
> why fetchmail cannot get/create mails.

Hm, probably not connected.

Cheers,

Gunnar


>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Gunnar
>
> Thanks for the Help
>
> Alexander
>
>
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