getmail (fetchmail-look-a-like) + cyrus

From: Corné (folidsafljisfdaljdsfaljdasflsadlij_at_turbonet.nl)
Date: 10/31/05

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    Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:06:30 +0100 (CET)
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    Hi,

    Recently I installed a bells-and-whistles mailserver on a Debian Sarge
    box, acoording to the howto at
    http://www.web-cyradm.org/documentation/debian_sarge-cyrus-howto.pdf

    It runs quite fine (using Postfix-mysql, Cyrus, Web-cyradm, ...) but now I
    want to get some mail over pop3 (from my provider) and deliver it to a
    mailbox on the debian box. Postfix is configured to deliver it's mail to
    cyrus.

    I found that fetchmail should be a bit insecure, so I decided to try
    Getmail (http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/). Should be easy to configure
    too.

    My idea is to forward the mail with smtp to localhost to a specified mail
    address. Then the message should proceed the normal way (amavis virus and
    spam filtering and deliver with cyrus). Because I only found procmail,
    mailbox and maildir configurations for getmail on the internet, I tried to
    use this home-brew configuration

    Make a user getmailuser

    In homedir, create ./getmail/getmailrc file

    getmailrc file content section destination
    [destination]
    type = MDA_external
    path = /usr/cyrus/bin/deliver
    arguments = ("-m the.existing.cyrus.user")

    when I try to run "getmail" as getmailuser, I get this error message:

    Delivery error (command deliver 11252 error (75, couldn't connect to
    lmtpd: Permission denied))

    It also says the message is retrieved succesfully, but not delivered.

    Running as root (with appropiate getmail options) isn't succesfull too:

    Delivery error (command deliver 11260 error (127, exec of command deliver
    failed (refuse to invoke external commands as root or GID 0 by default)))

    The question: How to get getmail forward to smtp with a mail address, or
    to cyrus (quite bad, because then no virusscanning is done)

    TNX in advance, Corné 

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