Fetchmail Integration

[Bhavik]

I have several problems related fetchmail integration.
1. How to manually trigger polling.
2. I have set 1 at interval, i do not know that it is minutes or something else.
3. when I restart MailGateway server, it retrieves 2 email even there are more at server.
4. I kept Unchecked "Keep Old Email", still It leaves copy at server.

Please help me, I do not have subscription and I want to evaluate for replacement of exchangepop3 application.

Thank you in advance.

 

[dcsapak]

did you already see https://pmg.proxmox.com/pmg-docs/pmg-admin-guide.html#pmgconfig_fetchmail

 

[Bhavik]

Dear Dominik,

I have already gone through admin guide, I could not get solution for above problems.

Best Regards,
Bhavik Patel

 

[dcsapak]

at least one answer to your question is in the admin guide:

2. I have set 1 at interval, i do not know that it is minutes or something else.

interval: <integer> (1 - 2016)
Only check this site every <interval> poll cycles. A poll cycle is 5 minutes.

can you post your journal/syslog from the pmg to see if there is any hint whats happening?

 

[Bhavik]

Dear Dminik,

Thank you for response, for point 1 manually triggering, I found workaround as restarting fetchmail service.
point 2, how can I reduce poll cycle time i.e. 5 minutes. I want to download emails in every one minutes.
point 3,4 are resolved automatically.

Thank you in advance.
Best Regards,
Bhavik

 

[dcsapak]

you should be able to adapt the poll cycle with the fetchmailrc template from /var/lib/pmg/templates
see https://pmg.proxmox.com/pmg-docs/pmg-admin-guide.html#pmgconfig_template_engine for more info on that

(the option you want to modify is the 'set daemon 300' option, see 'man fetchmailrc' for more detail)

 

[Bhavik]

Hi Dominik,

I am not able to modify "set daemon 60" instead of 300, it seems file is locked from editing or has to be through command to modify, please help if you have encountered with similar issue.

I want to reduce and set polling cycle time to 1 minute.

Best Regards,
Bhavik Patel

 

[dcsapak]

how do you mean you're not able to modify?
did you check out the link i sent about the templates?

 

[pflirsich]

Hi,

for anyone who might stumble upon this issue, this is how I solved it.

Modifying the template doesn't help because the interval is hardcoded in the systemd service. You can create an override with

systemctl edit fetchmail

and adding this:

[Service]
Environment=OPTIONS='--daemon 30'

You can use whatever interval you like.