[rt-users] Using Fetchmail to pipe mail into RT.

[Landon Stewart]

On 13 January 2014 16:30, Joshua Riden <jriden at cmhshare.org> wrote:

> Landon,
>
> Thank you so much Landon for your help. I appreciate it a lot! : )
>
> Now just a few questions..
>
> Where is the mailserver log that pertains to fetchmail?
> /var/logs/mailserver ?
>

fetchmail logging has to be turned on like this in .fetchmailrc:

defaults:
  batchlimit 100
  set logfile /home/username/fetchmail.log


>  So when you say I should send  to RT from a real email address, you mean
> from my /etc/aliases file?
>

I mean from a real email address so that bounces will come back to you if
there are any.


> How would I check for bounces that I would receive back?
>

You would check your mail.


> How would I manually pipe the mail into RT ? Is there a command that I can
> use?
>

If you had an email in a file in all its original glory you could pipe it
easily using cat.

# cat emailfile.eml | rt-mailgate

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