Microsoft exchange fetchmail

For checkout details see the Sourceforge page. Then to build:. If the build is successful proceed to configure the web application archive WAR file version of Davmail:. You should really only need to update davmail. For security reasons it makes sense to keep mail on-system whenever possible. Or to put it another way: if I send mail from my Acme Inc account to another Acme Inc user why route it via a 3rd party mail system?

Ensure that this file is mode and ownership root:postfix. However, this is out of the scope of this tutorial. I don't have any reports one way or the other yet. Also, we're told that TOP sometimes fails to retrieve the entire message even when enough lines have been specified. The MailMax developers have acknowledged this bug as of 4 May , but there is no fix yet. If you must use this server, force RETR with the fetchall option. The FTGate V2 server and possibly older versions as well has a weird bug.

Use the fetchall option to force use of RETR and work around this bug. First, make sure your fetchmail has the RPA support compiled in.

Stock fetchmail binaries such as you might get from an RPM don't. Give your CompuServe pass-phrase in lower case as your password. An RPA-enabled fetchmail will automatically check for csi. Warning: the debug -v -v output of fetchmail will show your pass-phrase in Unicode! You can get fetchmail to download the email for just one user from Demon Internet's POP3 server by giving it a username consisting of your Demon user name followed by your account name, with an at-sign between them.

All messages have a Received: header added when they enter the maildrop, like this:. To enable multi-drop mode you need to tell fetchmail that 'mailstore' is the name of the host which accepted the mail, and let it know the hostname part s of your E-mail address. The following example assumes that your hostname is xyz. Note that Demon may delete mail on the server which is more than 30 days old; see their POP3 page for details.

There's a different way to do multidrop. It's not necessary on Demon Internet, since fetchmail can parse Received addresses, but the person who implemented this didn't know that. It may be useful if Demon Internet ever changes mail transports.

The autodetection works by looking at the hostname in the POP3 greeting line; if you're accessing Demon Internet through a proxy it may fail. To force SDPS mode, pick "sdps" as your protocol. A user reports that the 2. This is almost certainly a server bug. The usa. Regardless of the argument you give it, they retrieve only about 10 lines of the message.

Also, we're told USA. NET adds a ton of hops to your messages. You may need to raise the MaxHopCount parameter in your sendmail. Note: Other failure modes have been reported on usa. They seem to be chronically flaky. We recommend finding another provider. Nathan Cutler reports that the the mail. This can solve problems if your MUA interprets Received continuations as body lines and doesn't parse any of the following headers. You should also consider using "fetchall" option because Geocities' servers sometimes think that the first 45 messages have already been read.

Fix: Get an email provider that doesn't suck. The pop-up ads on Geocities are lame, you should boycott them anyway. You can't, yet. But gotmail or HotWayDaemon might be what you need. And of course they don't document it, so nobody but their Windows clients can speak it. As of 5. It's possible this may enable fetchmail to talk to MSN; if so, somebody should report it so this FAQ can be corrected.

This means that if your connection drops in mid-message, it may end up invisibly stuck on your mail spool. Use the fetchall flag to ensure that it's recovered on the next cycle. Stock fetchmail will work with a comcast. Anything larger is silently truncated. Don't mistake this for a fetchmail bug. Giuseppe Guerini added a --with-socks option that supports linking with socks library. You can also specify a directory containing the Rconnect library. Alan Schmitt has added a similar --with-socks5 option that may work better if you have a recent version of the SOCKS library.

It should not be hard to build fetchmail on other IPv6 implementations if you can port the inet6-apps kit. You may have to use a different absolute pathname, whatever the location of imapd on your mailserver is. This option tells fetchmail that instead of opening a connection on the server's port and doing standard IMAP authentication, fetchmail should ssh to the server and run imapd, using the more secure ssh authentication as well as getting ssh's end-to-end encryption.

Most IMAP daemons will detect that they've been called from the command line and assume the connection is preauthenticated. POP3 daemons aren't quite as smart. They won't know they are preauthenticated in this mode, so you'll actually have to ship your password.

It will be under ssh encryption, though, so that shouldn't be a problem. You'll need version 4. Then you'll need to have your credentials ready on your machine cf. After that things are very simple. Set your protocol to imap-gss in your. You can specify a username if you want, but this is only useful if your mailbox belongs to a username different from your Kerberos principal.

Now you don't have to worry about your password appearing in cleartext in your. You'll need to have the OpenSSL libraries installed. Configure with --with-ssl. If you have them installed in a non-default location, you'll need to specify it as an argument to --with-ssl after an equal sign. It is recommended that you install 0.

Fetchmail binaries built this way support ssl , sslkey , and sslcert options that control SSL encryption. You will need to have an SSL-enabled mailserver to use these options. See the manual page for details and some words of care on the limited security provided.

An interactive program could seed the random number generator from keystroke timings or some other form of user input. Because fetchmail is primarily designed to run forever as a background daemon, that option is not available in this case. If you don't have the libraries installed, but do have the OpenSSL utility toolkit, something like this may work:.

If the SMTP host is inaccessible or the listener is down, fix that first. In Red Hat Linux 6. If the listener seems to be up when you test with telnet, the most benign and typical problem is that the listener had a momentary seizure due to resource exhaustion while fetchmail was polling it -- process table full or some other problem that stopped the listener process from forking.

Try running fetchmail -v again; if it succeeds, you had one of these kinds of transient glitch. You can ignore these hiccups, because a future fetchmail run will get the mail through. If the listener tests up, but you have chronic failures trying to connect to it anyway, your problem is more serious. One way to work around chronic SMTP connect problems is to use --mda. You should really try to figure out what's going on underneath before it bites you some other way.

We have one report from toby eskimo. Make sure it says something like. We had another report from a Linux user of fetchmail 2.

Apparently in some older Linux distributions the libc bind library version works better. As of 2. So under Linux it won't be, and this particular cause should go away. This will dump exactly what fetchmail retrieves to standard output plus the Received line fetchmail itself adds to the headers. If it doesn't match what you sent, then fetchmail or something on the server is broken.

This is usually reported from AIX or Ultrix, but has even been known to happen on Linuxes without a recent version of flex installed. The problem appears to be a result of building with an archaic version of lex. Fix: build and install the latest version of flex from the Free Software Foundation.

An FSF mirror site will help you get it faster. We've had this reported to us under Linux using libc It does not occur with libc We're told there is some problem with the malloc code in that version which makes it fragile in the presence of multiple free calls on the same pointer the malloc arena gets corrupted.

Unfortunately it appears from doing gdb traces that whatever free calls producing the problem are being made by the C library itself, not the fetchmail code they're all from within fclose, and not an fclose called directly by fetchmail, either. We have one report from a SunOS 4. We have another report of similar behavior from one Linux user, but many other Linux users reportt no problem.

If this happens, you have a specific portability problem with the code in daemon. The isolated Linux case has been chased down to a failure in dup 2 that may reflect a glibc bug. As a workaround, you can start fetchmail with -N and an ampersand to background it. A Sun user recommends this:. The extra pair of parens is significant it makes sure that the process detaches from the initial shell one more shell is started and dies immediately, detaching fetchmail and making it child of PID 1.

This is important when you start fetchmail interactively and than quit interactive shell. The line above makes sure fetchmail lives after that!

If it's over , change it in your PPP options file. Here are option values that work:. Another circumstance that can trigger this is if you are polling a virtual-mail-server name that is round-robin connected to different actual servers, so you get different IP addresses on different poll cycles.

To work around this, change the poll name either to the real name of one of the servers in the ring or to a corresponding IP address. In RH 6. Move your. Oddly, a similar problem has been reported from Debian systems. Brian Boutel writes:. TCP timestamps are turned on on my Linux boxes I assume it's now the default.

This uses 12 extra bytes per segment. When the tcp connection starts, the other end agrees a MSS of , and then fragments byte chunks into and 12, because is is not allowing for the timestamp. Then, for reasons I can't explain, it waits a long time typically 2 minutes after the ack is sent before sending the next fragmented packet. Turning off tcp timestamps avoids the fragmentation and restores normal behaviour. To do this, [execute]. I'm still unclear about the details of why this is happening.

At least [now] I am now getting good performance and no queue blocking. This is probably a general networking issue. Sending a "RETR" command will cause the server to start sending large amounts of data, which means large packets. If your networking layer has a packet-fragmentation problem, that's where you'll see it.

This probably means you have an mda option. Your MDA is croaking while being passed a message. Best fix is to remove the mda option and pass mail to your port 25 SMTP listener.

Your POP3 server is broken. You can work around this with the declaration auth password in your. We have no idea why this is. The hang is actually occuring when sendmail looks up a sender's address in DNS. The problem isn't in fetchmail but in the configuration of sendmail.

You must enable the 'nodns' and 'nocanonify' features of sendmail. Maybe you have a. You should probably remove it. Or maybe you're trying to run fetchmail in multidrop mode as root without a.

This doesn't do what you think it should; see question C1. Or you may not be connecting to the SMTP listener. Run fetchmail -v and see R1. If you're running this one, upgrade immediately. It also truncates long lines at column Many POP servers, if an interruption occurs, will restore the whole mail queue after about 10 minutes. Others will restore it right away. If you have an interruption and don't see it right away, cross your fingers and wait ten minutes before retrying.

Some servers such as Microsoft's NTMail are mis-designed to restore the entire queue, including messages you have deleted. If you have one of these and it flakes out on you a lot, try setting a small --fetchlimit value.

This will result in more IP connects to the server, but will mean it actually executes changes to the queue more often. Qualcomm's qpopper, used at many BSD Unix sites, is better behaved. Then it will re-queue any message that was being downloaded at hangup time. Still, qpopper may require a noticeable amount of time to do deletions and clean up its queue. No interrupt can cause it to lose mail. Another option is to use an imap gateway.

I've tried DavMail which is an exchange gateway, but that didn't respond correctly to the imap search commands my client uses. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Evan Anderson Evan Anderson k 18 18 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. In fact I did try that as well to no avail. I don't think it even changed the error message. I should also point out that I'm able to connect with my email client wanderlust in emacs just fine as well as with offlineimap, so it is definitely doable.

Also, offlineimap would work, but I've found it fails every once in a while, which is somewhat unacceptable. Connected to exchangeserver. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Microsoft acknowledges this as a known bug and apparently has no plans to fix it. To enable this, configure fetchmail with the —enable-NTLM option and recompile it.

Its LIST command does not reveal the real. They randomly drop atttachments on the floor, though. Its LIST command does not reveal the rea. Its LIST command does not reveal the real sizes of mail in the pop mailbox, but the sizes of the compressed versions in the exchange mail database thanks to Arjan De Vet and Guido Van Rooij for alerting us to this problem.