Topic: Fetchmail & fetchmail templating question

[MSmith]

Server in question is 5.12 (Yes,I know, but it's behind a firewall and ONLY does multidrop email retrieval).

Stopped retrieving after reconfiguration by ISP.  (AUTHFAIL)

This thread directly addressed my problem:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=11666.0

So I issued the fetchmail command with the --auth password switch, and voila, Fetchmail fetched a bunch of emails.  

However, those emails did NOT show up in the users' mailboxes.  Stupid me thought fetchmail would automagically deliver them, so what happened and can I fix it?

Next question:  the poster in the thread indicated he'd added the "--auth password" somehow to the fetchmail template; anybody got a clue how he did that?  I'm poking around myself and will answer my own question if I can, but help would be good too.

Thanks for thinking about this one, y'all.

[MSmith]

By modifying /etc/fetchmail directly, I was able to get fetchmail to do its job properly.  (See copy of /etc/fetchmail below).  However, I still don't know what happened to the 25 emails I stupidly downloaded to who-knows-where or how to modify the template to get the desired result.

***** = What I inserted & where



!/bin/sh

#------------------------------------------------------------
# DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It is updated automatically by the
# e-smith server and gateway software. Instead, modify the source
# template in an /etc/e-smith/templates-custom directory. For more
# information, see http://www.e-smith.org/custom/
#
# copyright (C) 2001 e-smith, inc.
#------------------------------------------------------------


# multi-drop configuration; fetchmail retrieves all mail from a remote POP mailbox:

/usr/bin/fetchmail --syslog --silent --fetchmailrc - <<EOF

set postmaster "postmaster"
set bouncemail
set properties ""

poll (*OBFUSCATED SERVER HERE*)
    protocol POP3
    no dns
    localdomains (*MYDOMAIN*)
*****    auth password
       username (*USERNAME*) password (*PASS*) to * here
           smtphost localhost
           smtpaddress (*MYDOMAIN*)
           fetchall
           forcecr

EOF

[MSmith]

All emails ended up being forwarded to the administrator set up in the email settings; so it left the server, which is why I couldn't find it.  So no real worries there.  Still want to know how to modify that template though.