getmail with postfix at plesk

[TimPlath]

Hey guys,
I am trying to use getmail with plesk. As I don't want to install any programs like maildrop that could break plesk functionality I want to deliver the mails that are fetched by getmail via the plesk mail delivery. I am using plesk with postfix on an ubuntu 10.04 system.

getmail now needs the path to the MDA binary. I am not quite sure what to write into the config file there. Can someone help me? Or is there a better solution than getmail?

Thanks!
Tim

 

[TimPlath]

I tried fetchmail with
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f %F -d %T";

Is not working either. Would be glad to get help.

 

[Nikolay.]

If you're using Postfix you need to use MDA the way Postfix in Plesk uses it, i.e., either postfix/local or postfix/virtual.

Why do you want to use getmail? Why do you need MDA if getmail is for mail retrieval? Why not use POP3/IMAP for the latter?

 

[TimPlath]

Hey Nikolai,
thank you for your answer!

I use getmail to fetch emails from other POP3 accounts. Before delivering those to local mailbox they should be filtered (not spam filtering, but sieving). This can be done bei sieve, but only if I use the plesk MDA. Another way as I said is to use maildrop for this, but there are several other problems.

 

[Nikolay.]

I think the binary you seek is called either postfix_local or plesk_local. That's from the top of my head. Good luck.