33.9. Summary

After completing this chapter you should understand what Fetchmail does, and how to set it up on your system to download email from other servers to local users. You should be familiar with the various options that can be set for each remote server and mailbox and understand the difference between the module's single-file and all-users modes.

Table 33.1. Module Configuration Options
Fetchmail config file to editAs explained earlier in the chapter, the module can manage either a single Fetchmail configuration file or files belonging to all UNIX users. When this field is set to All users' .fetchmailrc files, the contents of every user's .fetchmailrc file will be displayed on the main page for editing. Selecting the other option tells the module to edit the single configuration file whose path is entered into the text field next to it.
User to run the fetchmail daemon asNormally, the Start Fetchmail Daemon button runs the background checking process as root. To have it run as a different UNIX user, enter some other username into this field. Often there is no need for the daemon to be run as root because it requires no special privileges. Running as an unprivileged user like nobody reduces the chance that a security hole in Fetchmail could lead to the takeover of your system by an attacker.
Mail delivery commandWhen this field is set to Use SMTP (as it is by default), Fetchmail will deliver downloaded email by making an SMTP connection to the mail server on the same system on which it is running. The alternative is to enter a command that can accept an email message for delivery as input, such as /usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -f %F %T. This option can be useful if you do not have a mail server running all the time to accept SMTP connections.
Path to the fetchmail programThis field must contain either the full path to the Fetchmail executable (such as /usr/local/bin/fetchmail), or just fetchmail if it is in Webmin's program search path. You should only need to change it if you have installed the program in some directory that is not in the search path.
Path to the fetchmail daemon PID fileThis field must contain the location of the PID file that Fetchmail creates when started in daemon mode. The default is always /var/run/fetchmail.pid, but this may be incorrect if you have compiled it from the source or installed a package that uses a different PID file path.

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