How to get fetchmail to work with e-box.

First of all make sure that you have fully working e-box mail set up ant that the e-box server can connect to the internet. If this is not the case please fix this BEFORE you attempt to install and configure fetchmail.

Secondly run the fetchmail installation as root (sudo will do).
To install fetchamail just type:

apt-get install fetchmail

Vola! You now have fetchmail.

Now to the configuration.
This is bloody important!!
When running the fechmail command it will put the mail it downloads in to the mailbox of the user running the command. SO if you run it as root you'll have to specify where it's suppose to put the mail.
This mean that when you create the file it might be a good idea to use the account that's suppose to run fetch mail. 

But first off we need to create the config file.
Just create an empty file called .fetchmailrc in the home folder of the user whom is going to run the fetchmail command.
Preferably NOT root.

As I only want fetchmail to download my mail to one mailbox I shoes to run the command with that user. So my fetchmailrc file looks some thing like this:

poll mail.mydomain.com protocol pop3 user god@mydomain.com password yeahright 
poll mail.mydomain.com protocol pop3 user jebus@mydomain.com password yeahright

This config re queried me to ad localhost as a virtual domain in e-box mail (that one took me some time)

Of course you'll have to change  mail.mydomain.com to your mail server-address 
ago@mydomain.com to your account name 
and yeahright to your password.

But OK, so you need to configure fetchmail to download mails to more than one mailbox.
This is only some thing I've read about on the net, but the config should look some thin like this:

poll mail.mydomain.com with proto pop3
user god@mydomain.com there with password yeahright is god@localhost here
Of course you'll have to change  mail.mydomain.com to your mailserver-address, 
ago@mydomain.com to your account name,
yeahright to your password 
and god@localhost to your username @localhost



OK so now you're done with the config file, what now?
First off we'll need to reset the permission on the file.
Run:

chamod 600 .fetchmailrc

OK so lets test it.
Run:

fetchmail

All OK? Then how do we get the server to run the command on a schedule?
I used cron (hey it's what it's there for).
Some people might have some other ideas on how to do this better. To those people   I only have two word. FUCK YOU! :)

I added the following row to my /etc/crontab file:

*/10 *  * * *   god   fetchmail 

And as always replace god with the user that's suppose to run fetchmail.

And we are done!

//Freakz_