Bug 932163

Summary:	FETCHMAIL_POLLING_INTERVAL not honoured
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Andrew Beames <suse_forum>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Peter Varkoly <varkoly>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	forgotten_6EwEDK7-dH, forgotten_GJ25OdPlc3
Version:	Current
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 13.2
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Description Andrew Beames 2015-05-24 22:22:58 UTC

I am using openSUSE Tumbleweed on a reasonably fresh install.
I configured "mail server" through YaST2 and selected to use fetchmail as a daemon.
On completion I checked the running services and I see the following:

ps -ef | grep fetch
fetchma+   980     1  0 22:15 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900 -f /etc/fetchmailrc

In other words the interval is set to 900.
However in the "/etc/sysconfig" YaST2 option, the interval is set to 600:

cat /etc/sysconfig/fetchmail | grep -v "#"
FETCHMAIL_POLLING_INTERVAL="600"

FETCHMAIL_FETCHALL="yes"

FETCHMAIL_SILENT="no"

FETCHMAIL_USER="fetchmail"

FETCHMAIL_EXPERT_OPTIONS=""

FETCHMAIL_RC_PATH="/etc/fetchmailrc"


Unfortunately I could not work out where the fetchmail command was being constructed so I cannot help with a solution.

However, it could be possible to specify the interval and the daemon option in the /etc/fetchmailrc file as the following entry:

set daemon 600

Comment 1 Andrew Beames 2015-05-24 22:30:42 UTC

*** Bug 932164 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Forgotten User 6EwEDK7-dH 2015-07-09 09:48:58 UTC

I can confirm this annoying issue.
Workaround: Create File /etc/systemd/system/fetchmail.service with

.include /usr/lib/systemd/system/fetchmail.service

[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 600 -f /etc/fetchmailrc

and run "systemctl daemon-reload" afterwards.

Comment 3 Forgotten User GJ25OdPlc3 2016-01-02 19:52:21 UTC

in my opinion the bug is not fixed in opensuse 42.1.Is this right ?

Comment 4 Andrew Beames 2016-01-02 20:22:25 UTC

I am now using the leap 42.1 repos (rather than tumbleweed) but it is now a heavily customised mail system. I call fetchmail manually, for example.

However, I have just checked
/etc/sysconfig/fetchmail

and the setting is:
FETCHMAIL_POLLING_INTERVAL="300"

but, if I start the service:
/etc/sysconfig % sudo systemctl start fetchmail

and then check:
/etc/sysconfig % sudo systemctl status fetchmail
fetchmail.service - A remote-mail retrieval utility
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/fetchmail.service; disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sat 2016-01-02 20:15:53 GMT; 6s ago
 Main PID: 18482 (fetchmail)
   CGroup: /system.slice/fetchmail.service
           └─18482 /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900 -f /etc/fetchmailrc

you can see that the daemon has still been kicked off with 900.

Note that my /etc/fetchmailrc file only has poll statements in it.

Comment 5 Peter Varkoly 2019-06-05 14:40:11 UTC

Duplicated

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 905673 ***