Fetchmail

Fetchmail for SME Server

Maintainer

Schirrm's Studio (software)

Description

• Fetchmail retrieve mails from external mailboxes with many options.

Step-by-step silly HowTo for installation of Fetchmail on SMEserver.

It's intended for Linux-newbies.

Before install, check latest version here and replace filenames in step 2 & 3 if necessary.

Installation

1. Log in (with username root) to the SMEserver console.

2. Download Fetchmail from Schirrm's site:

wget http://www.schirrms.net/files/smeserver-fetchmail-1.3.5-01.noarch.rpm

3. Install Fetchmail:

yum localinstall smeserver-fetchmail-1.3.5-01.noarch.rpm

You will get a y/N-question, answer y if it looks fine.

4. Instructions at the end of previous installation advices the following commands:
"signal-event post-upgrade" and "signal-event reboot"
But you can ignore that and move on

5. In the server-manager, part 'Collaboration' you should find a 'Mails Retrieval' option.

This let you access on the main page of the Fetchmail configuration.

Check installed version

yum info installed smeserver-fetchmail

Uninstall

yum remove smeserver-fetchmail

Additional information

For more info check Schirrm's HowTo here.

If you connect to the SMEserver console by Putty ssh-client (or similar) you can copy and paste the commands (very convenient).

Please note that this was written in april 2007, if the software change then this howto may be outdated.

Please do edit if you find errors or have improvements, but make sure that it works!

Good luck /Per

Tested software version

Host: SMEserver v7.1 with update 3 (7.1.3)

smeserver-fetchmail-1.3.5-01.noarch.rpm

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