dovecot, kmail & thunderbird

[Art Alexion]

Fedirico, you are the best!

On Wednesday 08 March 2006 10:10, federico wrote:
> On Monday 06 March 2006 20:54, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Derek Broughton escribió:

<snip>

> > You may perhaps be missing the step between Fetchmail and Dovecot - you
> > need either an MTA (exim, postfix, or my preference masqmail) or an MDA
>
> I use postfix. If you don't have it installed, install it.
> If you have it installed and you are not aware of how it
> is configured, do: "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow postfix" and
> tell debconf to configure it for local delivery. That will do
> If you don't have a fixed ip and a domain.

Done.

>
> Now install/configure dovecot-imap:

Done.

> Dovecot will not work just as installed, you must
> open "/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf" and find this:
>
> # Protocols we want to be serving:
> #  imap imaps pop3 pop3s
> protocols = imap
>
> and put whatever protocol you would
> like it to handle. I just use imap and I guess that will
> do for you, too.

Done.

>
> Do sudo invoke-rc.d dovecot restart

This didn't work so I did 
sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
That worked.  I assume it does the same thing.

> Now you have a working imap system but you need to get
> your mail into the server. Enter fetchmail:
>

> Then create or edit if it exists : /etc/fetchmailrc

Created using your sample.


<snip>sample</snip>

> Permissions should be:
>
> -rw-------  1 fetchmail root 749 2005-12-21 23:26 /etc/fetchmailrc

Done.
>
> or it will refuse to run.

<snip>

> Now do:
> sudo invoke-rc.d fetchmail restart

did sudo /etc/init.d/fetchmail restart

>
> This tells fetchmail to check mail in username at server.name
> using the specified password every 10 minutes.
> The user "here" is the same user you will be using in the
> account in the MUA and it is - I guess - your local user account
> in your machine.
>
> do:
> tail -f /var/log/syslog
> in a console to see the thingie logging as it
> downloads mail and troubleshoot.

Errors:
Mar  8 21:42:47 localhost fetchmail[954]: Query status=10 (SMTP)
Mar  8 21:42:51 localhost fetchmail[954]: 64 messages (56 seen) for artalexion 
at pop.mail.yahoo.com (2613553 octets).
Mar  8 21:42:51 localhost fetchmail[954]: reading message 
artalexion at pop.plus.mail.yahoo4.akadns.net:57 of 64 (3976 octets)
Mar  8 21:42:51 localhost fetchmail[954]: SMTP connect to localhost failed
Mar  8 21:42:51 localhost fetchmail[954]: SMTP transaction error while 
fetching from pop.mail.yahoo.com
Mar  8 21:42:51 localhost fetchmail[954]: Query status=10 (SMTP)
Mar  8 21:42:51 localhost fetchmail[954]: Warning: server certificate 
verification: unable to get local issuer certificate
Mar  8 21:42:51 localhost fetchmail[954]: SSL connection failed.
Mar  8 21:42:51 localhost fetchmail[954]: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)
Mar  8 21:42:51 localhost fetchmail[954]: sleeping at Wed 08 Mar 2006 09:42:51 
PM EST

Note that I configured 3 accounts in fetchmailrc and artalexion at yahoo.com is 
only one of them.

Here is the relevant part of my fetchmailrc

poll incoming.yahoo.verizon.net with proto pop3
	user "art.alexion at verizon.net" pass "#####"
	options keep;

poll pop.mail.yahoo.com with proto pop3
	user "artalexion" pass "#####"
	options keep;

poll pop.gmail.com with proto POP3 port 995
	user "art.alexion" pass "#####"
        options keep ssl sslcertck sslcertpath /usr/share/ssl-cert/





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