Re: Fetchmail not working and putting errors in maillog

Am 06.01.26 um 03:17 schrieb Al:
> Hi,
>
> I hope that I someone can help me. I am trying to use fetchmail with 
> fetchmail.pl. I am running as the vmail user and this is the errors I 
> see in my mail log:
>
> fetchmail-all[19497]: fetch [email protected] for [email protected]
> fetchmail[19498]: 9955 messages for [email protected] at pop.mail.yahoo.com 
> (1982615899 octets).
> fetchmail[19498]: reading message 
> [email protected]@any-jpop.mail.gm0.yahoodns.net:1 of 9955 (34082 octets) 
> (log message incomplete)
> fetchmail[19498]: Cannot switch effective user id to 2001: Operation 
> not permitted
> fetchmail[19498]: MDA error while fetching from 
> [email protected]@pop.mail.yahoo.com
> fetchmail[19498]: Query status=6 (IOERR)
>
> I have tried to find a solution, but I am unable to solve this error. 
> Dovecot does deliver email that are received from postfix after I 
> added virtualmail to the dovecot group.


Your MDA cannot switch to user ID 2001 what- or whoever that is. No 
configuration shown, so we can't help you yet.


>
> Please let me know if other information is needed.

Yes, please... but that's a FAQ with a FGA... 
<https://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3>