Mailimport of /var/mail/fetchmail does not work

[Dennis]

Hello Janos,
the installation of piler works (i am using this installation guide: https://patrik.kernstock.net/2020/08/mailpiler-installation-guide/)
I have set up always BCC on the mailserver to [e-mail] and get those emails with fethcmail on the piler VM.
Normally this works like a charm. But on 1 of the managed piler-Installations the import ignores the mails in /var/mail/fetchmail completely.

The fetchmail-file is now bigger than 500MB with all the fetched mails.

Can you help me please get this fixed?

Cheers
Dennis

[Janos SUTO]

Hello Dennis, what piler version do you have, what command do you run, and what’s the error you get from pilerimport?

[Dennis]

Hello Janos, i am using piler version 1.3.11, when running pilerimport -e /var/mail/fetchmail i get the following error:
failed to import: /var/mail/fetchmail (id: 5000000062bd52ec0d98472c00fc505d9650)

While trying to import directly via pop3 with pilerimport -K MAILSERVER -P 995 -u [e-mail] -p PASSWORD -r -o
i get this output:

Cipher: TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
found 1 messages
processed:       1 [100%]

But nothing gets imported

Do you have any idea where i can look for more details, why nothing gets imported?

[Janos SUTO]

I think the fetchmail file is not an EML file, rather an mbox style file. If that’s the case, then run pilerimport -m /var/mail/fetchmail

Also be sure that user piler can write the current directory ($PWD)

[Dennis]

Hey Janos,
thank you very much. The pilerimport -m got me in the right direction.
After I tried it, I got permission denied. So I looked deeper at the permissions of /var/mail/fetchmail and recognized that the user piler had no rights on this file.
After changing the right to read/write for piler I could import the file.
Now I only have to add the import to pilers crontab and find a way to clear the content of the file periodically.

Thank you very much!

Cheers
Dennis