Mailadmin over and over receives mails about pop-error

Support knowledgebase (rsimai_imap_fetch_mail_error)
Applies to

eMail Server: Version 2

Symptom:

Mailadmin gets over and over mails with this contents:

Subject:Cron <cyrus@MY_SERVER> /usr/bin/pop.pl --pop pop3.PROVIDER.de USER
No such object at /usr/bin/pop.pl line 401. 

Cause:

You have configured Fetch Mail using some special characters.
For some providers you have to do this, e.g. to poll mails from Strato you have to replace @ with %
Though, these characters are interpreted by some scripts.

Solution:

You may find a modified fetch-mail-script on our FTP-server.

Proceed as follows:

  1. Download ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/products/emailserver/2.0/fetch_mail.pl.gz and save it to /tmp

  2. Unzip it:
    gunzip /tmp/fetch_mail.pl.gz
  3. Change the attributes:
    chmod u+s,g+x,o+x /tmp/fetch_mail.pl
  4. Save the original file:
    mv  /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/imap-bin/fetch_mail.pl /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/imap-bin/fetch_mail.pl.old
  5. Copy the file to its place:
    cp /tmp/fetch_mail.pl /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/imap-bin/fetch_mail.pl
Finally remove existing Fetch Mail entries which contain special characters and create them new!
Keywords: IMAP, MAILADMIN, FETCH, MAIL, FETCHMAIL, POP

Categories: SuSE Linux IMAP Server

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