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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Knowledge that I’d like to document for the list. By trial and error, on Centos 5 I’ve found that you should use single quotes if your password contains special characters such as ‘$’. Double-quotes didn’t work. I also found (thx, Google) that in Exchange 2007 plaintext password authentication is disabled by default, but it can be turned on (assuming that POP3 is enabled on Exchange server in the 1<sup>st</sup> place) <a href="http://msexchangetips.blogspot.com/2007/11/exchange-2007-pop3-err-command-is-not.html">http://msexchangetips.blogspot.com/2007/11/exchange-2007-pop3-err-command-is-not.html</a> and many others.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Also, I think you can use secure POP3 (port 995) but it seems I would need a version of fetchmail with SSL compiled in. The stock version that comes with Centos 5.7 doesn’t. Nor does it have NTLM compiled in. NTLM can be used with IMAP (secure port 993) if I understand correctly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>[root@tracker ~]# fetchmail -V<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>This is fetchmail release 6.3.21+HESIOD+NLS.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Our Exchange server does have OWA (outlook web access), and I’ve found two tools that can access mailboxes via OWA – DavMail and FetchExc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Mike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> rt-users-bounces@lists.bestpractical.com [mailto:rt-users-bounces@lists.bestpractical.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ronen_Amity@DELL.com<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 17, 2011 3:38 AM<br><b>To:</b> rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [rt-users] fetchmailrc<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>This is what we use (pulling emails from a gmail account, hence the 995 port)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>~rt/.fetchmailrc:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>set postmaster “ronen”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>set daemon 600<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>pool pop.gmail.com with proto pop3 user ‘xx@gmail.com’ there with password ‘XXXXXXX’ is user5 here options ssl</span><span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>crontab for user rt:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>5,15,25,35,45,55 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail –d 0 –P 995 –ssl –smtpname <a href="mailto:xx@gmail.com"><span style='color:red'>xx@gmail.com</span></a> –u <a href="mailto:xx@gmail.com"><span style='color:red'>xx@gmail.com</span></a> pop.gmail.com –f fetchmail.test 2>&1 > /dev/null</span><span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>fetchmail.test:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>poll pop.gmail.com proto pop3:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>username "<a href="mailto:xx@gmail.com">xx@gmail.com</a>" password "XXXXXXXX" mda "/opt/rt4/bin/rt-mailgate --url <a href="http://cm-help">http://cm-help</a> --queue CM --action correspond"</span><span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Museo For Dell";color:#444444'>Ronen </span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Museo For Dell";color:#444444'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> <a href="mailto:rt-users-bounces@lists.bestpractical.com">rt-users-bounces@lists.bestpractical.com</a> <a href="mailto:[mailto:rt-users-bounces@lists.bestpractical.com]">[mailto:rt-users-bounces@lists.bestpractical.com]</a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>20/20 Lab<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 16, 2011 23:45<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com">rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [rt-users] fetchmailrc<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Shouldnt you have "s around your user name?<br><br>the only difference I have in mine is<br><br>user "username" pass "password" to user here<br><br>tho our mailserver auths with full domain.<br><br><br><br>On 11/16/2011 12:49 PM, <a href="mailto:mjames@guesswho.com">mjames@guesswho.com</a> wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Using fetchmail for 1<sup>st</sup> time to collect mail from an Exchange server.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Exchange 2010<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>RT 4.0.1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Centos 5.7<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>fetchmail release 6.3.21+HESIOD+NLS.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here’s my /opt/rt4/etc/fetchmailrc:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>poll mail.domain.com proto pop3:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>user trackrequests there with password 'cleverly removed' is kiss here mda "/opt/rt4/bin/rt-mailgate --url <a href="http://xtracker.domain.com">http://xtracker.domain.com</a>. --queue General --action correspond"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When I invoke fetchmail –f /opt/rt4/etc/fetchmailrc, it appends “@mail.domain.com” to the username, whereas the correct user is <a href="mailto:trackrequests@domain.com">trackrequests@domain.com</a>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If I specify user <a href="mailto:trackrequests@domain.com">trackrequests@domain.com</a> in the fetchmailrc file, then fetchmail turns it into <a href="mailto:trackrequests@domain.com@mail.domain.com">trackrequests@domain.com@mail.domain.com</a>. For example:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>[root@xtracker ~]# fetchmail -f /opt/rt4/etc/fetchmailrc<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>fetchmail: Authorization failure on <a href="mailto:trackrequests@domain.com@mail.domain.com">trackrequests@domain.com@mail.domain.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve googled for an answer, but haven’t stumbled across it yet. Thanks for any help,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre>--------<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>RT Training Sessions (<a href="http://bestpractical.com/services/training.html">http://bestpractical.com/services/training.html</a>)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>* Barcelona, Spain — November 28 & 29, 2011<o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>