[SOLVED] getmail + procmail + exim4 = Local Duplicates & No Forwarding

Vinter · 03-11-2012, 09:07 PM

Hi!

In order to accumulate all my mail, process it by the same standards and make it available on one central IMAP server, I am currently trying to set up a chain of [several remote accounts] -> getmail -> procmail -> spamassassin -> clamav -> exim4 -> [central remote account].

The last time I did something like this is long past, so I am struggling quite a bit. Fortunately, only two problems remain.

* getmail fetches duplicates. It does not matter wether I set it up to use POP3 or IMAP on the same server, it always gets everything from all my accounts every time I run it.

There has been a bug in the past which produced the same behavior, but it had to do with a faulty implementation of IMAP and thus does not concern my setup.

The read_all flag for the respective accounts is set to 'false'.

The digests of known messages are built, and are readable by the program.

Here is a sample config file:

Code:

[default]                                       
verbose = 1                                     
readall = false                                     
delete = 0                                      
message_log = /var/log/getmail.log             
timeout = 240                                   
max_message_size = 0

[retriever]
type = SimplePOP3Retriever
server = xxx
username = xxx
password = xxx

[filter-spam]
type = Filter_external
path = /usr/bin/spamc

[filter-virus]
type = Filter_classifier
path = /usr/bin/clamdscan
arguments = ("--stdout", "--no-summary", "-")
exitcodes_keep = (0, )

[filter-virus2]
type = Filter_external
path = /usr/bin/formail
arguments = ("-R", "X-getmail-filter-classifier:", "X-ClamAV:")

[destination]
type = MDA_external
path = /usr/bin/procmail
unixfrom = true

What is wrong with that setup?

* Also, I seem not to be able to forward my mail to the external address. It is located with a free web hosting provider (x10hosting.com), whose SMTP server I tried beforehand. (Simple HELO; MAIL FROM <random address>; RCPT TO <remote account>; DATA [...] .; QUIT and a message apped in the inbox.) I set up exim4 to use that exact SMTP as a Smart Host, and as procmail directs mail to one of the addresses I tried, I assume that the procedure is about the same I tried. However, neither a message nor an error is ever received. What could be wrong here? My procmail recipe is as follows:

Code:

DEFAULT=/var/mail/$LOGNAME
VERBOSE=no

:0
* X-ClamAV:.*FOUND
inbox-virus

:0
* X-Spam-Flag: YES
* ! ^X-Loop: pikaro
{
  :0fwh
  | formail -A"X-Loop: pikaro"
  :0c
  inbox-spam
  :0
  !spam@xxx
}

:0
* ! ^X-Spam-Flag: YES
* ! ^X-Loop: pikaro
{
  :0fwh
  | formail -A"X-Loop: pikaro"
  :0c
  inbox
  :0
  !root@xxx
}

Any errors here?

Thanks for any advice! I'll be glad to provide any furthe information needed, of course.

Vinter · 03-13-2012, 10:33 AM

*facepalm*

Problems solved. Just for reference, if anyone comes across the same issues:

GetMail config file style seems to have changed. I copied the base structure of what I posted above from someone else - and the section declaring options cannot be named "default" any more, it needs to be called "options". (Don't know if this was ever different, maybe I copied a mistake in the first place.)

Also, while exim4 asks for a FQDN, it does _not_ try to use it for HELO in SMTP (for whatever reason). I had to add a line (and I know it breaks some other usage profiles, but DAMN this config file is a mess!) saying REMOTE_SMTP_HELO_DATA=${qualify_domain} in line 1440 of /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template.