Topic: Where to find Fetchmail Configuration File

[matt001]

Hi,

I want to modify the fetchmail configuration file so it polls the pop3 external mail servers every 2minutes.

Can someone please help me with this.

Thanks

Matthew

[jonroberts]

Matt,

There are contribs that will enable you to Poll multiple POP accounts.  I'm sure a forum search will find some.

I must admit that I have some clients where I do this & I don't use a contrib, what I do is this:

The email account details are in /etc/fetchmail, so you could create 2 or 3 copies of this (e.g. fetchmail.account1, fetchmail.account2 etc).  Then edit each one to change the name of the Pop Server, username & password to match the additional accounts.

The fetchmail file is called from /etc/startmail (you can also force a polling of accounts by issuing the command /etc/startmail).  You can edit this file so that it not only calls /etc/fetchmail, it also calls fetchmail.account1, fetchmail.account2 etc.  Its a simply copy / paste of the exisiting line and then editing it to change the file name.

This will then work (for a while) and /etc/startmail will poll multiple accounts.  But be warned - as soon as you make any changes to the email settings in server-manager, /ect/startmail will be recreated & your changes lost.

So you need to create a custom template for the /etc/startmail creation that includes the calls to the additional POP accounts.

All in all, probably safer to use an existing contrib, but it works for me on the odd occassion I need it and am feeling a little lazy.

Jon