All,
I am trying to use fetchmail to take care of a 'pop before smtp' authorization
scheme my isp has implemented.
I have a script with the line: "/usr/bin/fetchmail -c -f /etc/fetchmailrc"
The script is called by mailprogram and therefore fetchmail (running under
mailprogram) doesn't work:
- fetchmail doesn't seem to have an option to provide a password to a pop
account w/o using fetchmailrc
- fetchmail can't access fetchmailrc because a: fetchmailrc is not owned by
mailprogram
b:
fetchmailrc can not have permissions greater than 710
- can not chown of fetchmailrc to mailprogram because no user by that name
- can not create user of that name because is a system account
So, is there any way to run fetchmail from a script called by a program and/or
another way to do a dummy login to a pop account, ie. I tried:
'telnet mail.isp.com 110 < popscript' but just get disconnected by the remote.
If worst comes to worst I'll install expect but would prefer to do it with
what's already on the system.
Thanks,
Stephen Watts