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robertocanazza
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Posted: 22 May 2014 at 11:50pm \| IP Logged

I have installed rpm version into a new and clean CentOS 6.5.
All work fine but with pop3 don't fetch mail.
Loocking into the log file is all ok, it autenticate and access to pop3, indicate also the number of mail present, but don't download them.
Have you any suggestions?
thx

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Igor
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Posted: 23 May 2014 at 2:30am \| IP Logged

POP3 fetcher relies on crontab entry firing every 10 minutes, and it looks like that crontab entry isn't set by default, we'll fix it in next update.

To have POP3 fetcher functional, the following entry must be added to "crontab -e":

Code:

*/10 * * * * /bin/bash /opt/afterlogic/scripts/mailfetch.sh

Hope this helps!

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Igor, AfterLogic Support

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Posted: 23 May 2014 at 9:59am \| IP Logged

Ok, tested and work fine!
...but... all the message has the time and date when fetch...
there's a way to mantain date and time of the message?
thx

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Posted: 26 May 2014 at 3:09am \| IP Logged

It's a known limitation of the fetcher. Perhaps, we'll find another fetcher implementation in the future but can't guarantee that.

Regards,
Alex

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Posted: 27 May 2014 at 12:03am \| IP Logged

I have saved a fetched email and opened with Outlook, inside the message there is the original date of the mail.
There's no way to use that date in the list of fetched mail?

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Posted: 27 May 2014 at 2:33am \| IP Logged

It could lead to unpredictable results. In IMAP, an email message can have different dates assigned to it. Outlook shows the date which we cannot use as it may show incorrect results in other cases. We already tried that in the past and had to revert to the original behavior due to side effects, such as different dates in message list and when viewing the message itself.

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Posted: 28 May 2014 at 4:17am \| IP Logged

Looks like you deleted your last answer which was about adding the option "--received-header=off". Was this because it did not actually help? Anyway, we tried this and it does not help.

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Alex

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Posted: 28 May 2014 at 11:03am \| IP Logged

I don't know WHY, but after the change I've fetched more of 200 mail with perfect date/time.

To be sure in the "night" I've applied a restore point of the virtual machine and remake the change... but it wasn't as the first time... so...

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Posted: 28 May 2014 at 5:39pm \| IP Logged

Surfing the web I've found this script:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

#

# Date : July 4th, 2005

# Author: Benson Wong

# tummytech@gmail.com

#

# This shell script corrects email messages where the file system

# date does not match the Date: header in the email.

#

# This will fix problems with mail clients like Apple's mail.app

# which uses the file system timestamp resulting in emails with the

# wrong file system timestamp to display the wrong received date

#

# This script has to be run by a user [root] with the

# necessary privileges to read/modify files in a user's Maildir.

#

function usage() {

  if [ "$1" != "" ]; then

    echo "$1"

  fi

  echo "Usage: $0 /path/to/user/Maildir"

  exit 1

}

function email_date() {

  local DATELINE=`grep -e "^Date: " "$1" | head -1`

  local DELIVERYDATELINE=`grep -e "^Delivery-date: " "$1" | head -1`

  if [ -n "$DELIVERYDATELINE" ]; then

    local DATELINE="${DELIVERYDATELINE/elivery-d/}"

  fi

  # f**ked up date like Mon, 03 Nov 03 11:37:04 Romance Standard Time

  local regex='^Date: ([A-Za-z]{3}, [0-9]{2} [A-Za-z]{3} [0-9]{2,4} [0-9]{1,2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}) ([A-Za-z ]*)$'

  if [[ $DATELINE =~ $regex ]]; then

    EDATE=`date -d "${BASH_REMATCH[1]}" "+%Y%m%d%H%M"`

    return 0

  fi

  # Missing "+" before timezone

  local regex='^Date: ([A-Za-z]*, [0-9]* [A-Za-z]* [0-9]{4} [0-9]{1,2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}) ([0-9]{4})$'

  if [[ $DATELINE =~ $regex ]]; then

    EDATE=`date -d "${BASH_REMATCH[1]} +${BASH_REMATCH[2]}" "+%Y%m%d%H%M"`

    return 0

  fi

  # Remove day of the week

  local regex='^Date: ([A-Za-z]*,) (.*)$'

  if [[ $DATELINE =~ $regex ]]; then

    EDATE=`date -d "${BASH_REMATCH[2]}" "+%Y%m%d%H%M"`

    return 0

  fi

  local regex='^Date: (.*)$'

  if [[ $DATELINE =~ $regex ]]; then

    EDATE=`date -d "${BASH_REMATCH[1]}" "+%Y%m%d%H%M"`

    return 0

  fi

}

MDIR_PATH="$1"

[ $# -lt 1 ] && usage

[ ! -d "$MDIR_PATH" ] && usage "Error: $MDIR_PATH does not exist"

[ ! -r "$MDIR_PATH" ] && usage "Error: $MDIR_PATH is not readable"

[ ! -w "$MDIR_PATH" ] && usage "Error: $MDIR_PATH is not writable"

# set the internal field separator to the newline character

# instead of the default "".

# This is required for handling filenames and directories with spaces

IFS="

"

set -f

echo "start"

# Find all emails

for i in `find $MDIR_PATH -type f | egrep -v "(courierimap|maildirsize|maildirfolder)"`; do

  email_date "$i"

  if [ -z "$EDATE" ]; then

    echo ""

    echo "Unparsable date for" `basename $i`

    continue

  fi

  FDATE=`ls -l --time-style=long-iso "$i" | awk '{print $6,$7}'`

  # Reformat the date for touch.

  ODATE=`date -d "$FDATE" "+%Y%m%d%H%M"`

  if [ "$EDATE" -eq "$ODATE" ]; then

    # Skip it if the times are correct.

    echo -n "."

    continue

  fi

  echo ""

  echo `basename $i` "from $ODATE to $EDATE"

  touch -c -t "$EDATE" "$i"

done

echo ""

echo "done"

After fetched mail (with ALL the same date), applied this script and deleted the "dovecot.index.cache", refreshing the page the date is correct.

I'm not a programmer but if one has the ability to correct the script "mailfetch.sh" and integrate it with the part of this script that fix the date/time issue, will be a great goal!!

thx

robertocanazza
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Posted: 29 May 2014 at 1:23am \| IP Logged

...tested again and the script correct the date!!!

But is too easy to stop here

The dates are now correct, is sorted by dates but by time is in random mode...

How to sort by date / time?

thx

Alex
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Posted: 29 May 2014 at 3:36am \| IP Logged

Quote:

The dates are now correct, is sorted by dates but by time is in random mode...

Yes, that's another one of "unpredictable results". We had too many issues with IMAP dates in fetcher and therefore left it as-is for a while.

Regards,
Alex

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