Fetchmailrc launchd configuration

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October 28, 2009 at 7:16 pm #377422

atma
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Greetings,

I want to make launchd act like cron for my fetchmail and hence I’m trying to write my first launchd xml script. Although I’ve read a lot, apparently the task is proven a bit more difficult that I imagined.
Given the fact that as a user I can run fetchmail through the command line with issues and get all my emails to $HOME/Mail/ for mutt to see, I decided to create a launchd xml startup file and place it on $HOME/Library/LaunchDaemons/ .

So here is my script

Disabled

KeepAlive

Label
org.macports.fetchmail
Program
/usr/bin/fetchmail
ProgramArguments

–fetchmailrc=/Users/atma/.fetchmailrc
–pidfile=/Users/atma/.fetchmail/fetchmail.pid
–nodetach

RunAtLoad

This is the last xml file I’ve made. The prior one, which made more sense to me was with time interval. But it did not work either. All the files I create don’t work and when I load them I get the same string of errors:

launchd[1123]: org.macports.fetchmail: exited with exit code: 1
launchd[1123]: org.macports.fetchmail: 9 more failures without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal

and a weird bonjour error that I can’t replicate right now and I can’t find on syslog. Since I plan to write a few more launchd scripts… Can someone explain what am I missing here?

Thanks in advance,

regards

October 30, 2009 at 11:19 pm #377427
robinson
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In my case I did it with 2 files. First I have /etc/fetchmailrc with
```
poll mail.yourprovider.com proto pop3
user user@yourprovider.com password secret sslproto '' is user here
```
and then the /Library/LaunchDaemons/info.fetchmail.launchd.plist with
```
info.fetchmail.launchd.plist
sh-3.2# vim info.fetchmail.launchd.plist 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>Disabled</key>
        <false/>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>info.fetchmail.launchd</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
                <string>fetchmail</string>
                <string>-f</string>
                <string>/etc/fetchmailrc</string>
                <string>-d</string>
                <string>300</string>
        </array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
        <key>UserName</key>
        <string>admin</string>
</dict>
</plist>
```
It’s important that the UserName (in my case “admin”) is the owner of /etc/fetchmailrc
November 1, 2009 at 8:33 am #377428

Violet
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Hi Robinson….

Can you give me a bit more info how you achieved this.??

– File permissions…
– Debugging…..

Any help would be great.

November 5, 2009 at 9:50 pm #377457

robinson
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I used Lingon http://sourceforge.net/projects/lingon/files/ for create the plist file. I cannot give you any advice because I don’t know much more about this by myself. Sorry.
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