Fetchmail setup for Zen Internet

[Stephen Pelc]

If someone has migrated to a Zen hosting account, and has fetchmail
and sendmail configurations that work, then we would be grateful to
see them. We have configured fetchmail according to Zen's
instructions, but get a message:

Server CommonName mismatch:
*.hosting.zen.net.uk != mail.xxxxx.myzen.co.uk

Our mail seems to be read from the Zen catchall box, but then
disappears. There's also sendmail in the way for local routing
it appears.

I'm not a *nix guru, and our previous server maintainer is
suddenly unavailable.

Stephen

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[Rick Hewett]

On Tue 12 May Stephen Pelc wrote:
> If someone has migrated to a Zen hosting account, and has fetchmail
> and sendmail configurations that work, then we would be grateful to

Fetchmail I have set up. Sendmail, I don't use.

My /etc/fetchmailrc looks a bit like this:

set postmaster "postmaster"
set no bouncemail
set no spambounce

poll mailhost.zen.co.uk with protocol POP3, with options
no dns
aka mail.zen.net.uk
envelope 3 "Received"
user "zen???@zen.co.uk" with password "???" to * here
ssl
sslcertpath /etc/fetchmail/ssl
fetchall
no rewrite
smtpaddress my.local.smtp.server
smtphost 127.0.0.1

I'm unconvinced the 'envelope 3 "Received" ' bit works though...

There was some ssl jiggery-pokery to do, too, a bit like this:

# cd /etc/fetchmail/ssl

# echo | \
openssl s_client -connect mailhost.zen.co.uk:995 -showcerts \
2>/dev/null | \
sed -ne '/BEGIN CERT/,/END CERT/p' > mailhost.zen.co.uk.pem

# echo | \
openssl s_client -connect mailhost.zen.co.uk:995 -showcerts \
2>/dev/null | sed -ne '/issuer=/p'

# c_rehash /etc/fetchmail/ssl

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[Stephen Pelc]

On Tue, 12 May 2015 20:21:39 -0000, ri...@chocky.private (Rick Hewett)
wrote:

>On Tue 12 May Stephen Pelc wrote:
>> If someone has migrated to a Zen hosting account, and has fetchmail
>> and sendmail configurations that work, then we would be grateful to
>
>Fetchmail I have set up. Sendmail, I don't use.

Many thanks - I'll let you know what happens, but it won't be
until next week when I get back from a trip.