Getmail over fetchmail

[leroy]

has anyone had any experience compiling & using getmail on tiger.
http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/

I noticed a few sites claiming getmail to be more secure, better designed etc..

[Anonymous]

what “compile”?

its a python script. it runs fine on Tiger with no modification.

[leroy]

yes, its not a compile, you use the python build & python install commands. And it does appear to work fine in terms of downloading from my pop3 mailboxs.
But I am unable to have getmail deliver to my IMAP mailboxs.
From what I understand the mailboxs are stored in /var/spool/imap/user/[user] .
But /var/spool/imap/user has the following permissions
owner cyrusimap
group mail
uid 77

I am administering the server under a standard admin account which has group ID 501.

So mail delivery process fails as getmail cannot read contents of the directories. Running sudo getmail also doesn’t work.

So what is the best practise here for mac os server. Do I change the permissions /var/spool/imap/user/ or do I create a new user who inherits group permission from cyrusimap? I realise playing around with Netinfo and sudo commands can screw things up quickly so I’m a bit stuck on what direction to go?

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