Fetchmail delivers mail to /var/mail/fetchmail
 

Hi,

New here so I hope I am at the right place.

Using opensuse 11.4 and configuring that as a replacement for my old suse 9.x server.

I have fetchmail running as user.
I have a .fetchmailrc with the ordinairy stuff like poll pop3 as 'user'

As mta I have postfix.

My issue is that mail gets stored in /var/mail/fetchmail and also to 'user' (as far as I know and have checked and verified)

so /var/mail/'user' is size 0 and /var/mail/fetchmail is growing and growing and if I 'cat fetchmail' I see that most or all were delivered to my procmail.

I just do not get why it keeps it in fetchmail.

I searched the net, found one example someone had the same, he was told to add to the .fetchmailrc "poll pop3 ... "as 'user'" statement, I already have that..

Thanks for help.

Best post which instructions you followed (where?), how you run Fetchmail (command line), the contents of your .fetchmailrc (obfuscating any login:passwd and ISP data) and any log excerpts if you run fetchmail in debug mode.

Well, ok, .fetchmailrc

postmaster user
set no bouncemail
set no spambounce
set no syslog
set daemon 300
set logfile ./fetchmaillog

poll "mail.isp" protocol POP3 user "user" there with password "password" is user here
and some more accounts..

also tried

poll "server.isp" protocol POP3
envelope x-originally-to
localdomains mydomain.tld localhost
user "remoteuser" there with password "password" is user here



here is the log file example

Aug 9 15:53:19 linux postfix/smtpd[1941]: 637542A3A93: client=localhost[::1]
Aug 9 15:53:19 linux postfix/cleanup[1945]: 637542A3A93: message-id=<201108091353.p79DrN6J003441@server.isp>
Aug 9 15:53:19 linux postfix/qmgr[31802]: 637542A3A93: from=<remoteuser@server>, size=2366, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Aug 9 15:53:19 linux postfix/smtpd[1941]: disconnect from localhost[::1]
Aug 9 15:53:19 linux postfix/local[1946]: 637542A3A93: to=<fetchmail@localhost.mydomain>, orig_to=<fetchmail@localhost>, relay=local, delay=1.8, delays=1.7/0.01/0/0.08, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/bin/procmail -Y -a $DOMAIN)
Aug 9 15:53:19 linux postfix/qmgr[31802]: 637542A3A93: removed
Aug 9 15:56:09 linux postfix/smtpd[2016]: connect from localhost[::1]
Aug 9 15:56:10 linux postfix/smtpd[2016]: AB89C2A3A93: client=localhost[::1]
Aug 9 15:56:10 linux postfix/cleanup[2018]: AB89C2A3A93: message-id=<201108091353.p79DrN6J003441@server.isp>
Aug 9 15:56:10 linux postfix/qmgr[31802]: AB89C2A3A93: from=<remoteuser@server.isp>, size=2356, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Aug 9 15:56:10 linux postfix/smtpd[2016]: disconnect from localhost[::1]
Aug 9 15:56:20 linux postfix/local[2019]: AB89C2A3A93: to=<user@localhost.mydomain>, orig_to=<user@localhost>, relay=local, delay=11, delays=1/0.01/0/9.8, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/bin/procmail -Y -a $DOMAIN)
Aug 9 15:56:20 linux postfix/qmgr[31802]: AB89C2A3A93: removed

Seems like mail first goes to fetchmail, then postfix reroutes, but mail stays in /var/mail/fetchmail too..

I can't track right now what route I followed to install the combo of fetchmail and postfix, but most is pretty well standard, just the result is not :)

Ah, I see. So basically you've got an a local user account called "fetchmail" and its mail gets duplicated. Sounds like a procmail recipe thing to me.