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Advanced | Email Gathering with Getmail |
To enable the getmail service to retrieve e-mails set the environment variable ENABLE_GETMAIL
to 1
. Your compose.yaml
file should include the following:
environment:
- ENABLE_GETMAIL=1
- GETMAIL_POLL=5
In your DMS config volume (eg: docker-data/dms/config/
), add a subdirectory getmail/
for including your getmail config files (eg: imap-example.cf
) for each remote account that you want to retrieve mail from and deliver to the mailbox of a DMS account.
The content of these config files is documented in the next section with an IMAP and POP3 example to reference.
The directory structure should look similar to this:
├── docker-data/dms/config
│ ├── dovecot.cf
│ ├── getmail
│ │ ├── getmailrc_general.cf
│ │ ├── remote-account1.cf
│ │ ├── remote-account2.cf
│ ├── postfix-accounts.cf
│ └── postfix-virtual.cf
├── docker-compose.yml
└── README.md
Configuration
A detailed description of the configuration options can be found in the online version of the manual page.
Common Options
The default options added to each getmail
config are:
[options]
verbose = 0
read_all = false
delete = false
max_messages_per_session = 500
received = false
delivered_to = false
The DMS integration for Getmail generates a getmailrc
config that prepends the common options of the base config to each remote account config file (*.cf
) found in the DMS Config Volume getmail/
directory.
!!! tip "Change the base options"
Add your own base config as `getmail/getmailrc_general.cf` into the DMS Config Volume. It will replace the DMS defaults shown above.
??? example "IMAP Configuration"
This example will:
1. Connect to the remote IMAP server from Gmail.
2. Retrieve mail from the gmail account `alice` with password `notsecure`.
3. Store any mail retrieved from the remote mail-server into DMS for the `user1@example.com` account that DMS manages.
```getmailrc
[retriever]
type = SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever
server = imap.gmail.com
username = alice
password = notsecure
[destination]
type = MDA_external
path = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver
allow_root_commands = true
arguments =("-d","user1@example.com")
```
??? example "POP3 Configuration"
Just like the IMAP example above, but instead via POP3 protocol if you prefer that over IMAP.
```getmailrc
[retriever]
type = SimplePOP3SSLRetriever
server = pop3.gmail.com
username = alice
password = notsecure
[destination]
type = MDA_external
path = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver
allow_root_commands = true
arguments =("-d","user1@example.com")
```
Polling Interval
By default the getmail
service checks external mail accounts for new mail every 5 minutes. That polling interval is configurable via the GETMAIL_POLL
ENV variable, with a value in minutes (default: 5, min: 1):
environment:
- GETMAIL_POLL=1
XOAUTH2 Authentication
It is possible to utilize the getmail-gmail-xoauth-tokens
helper to provide authentication using xoauth2
for gmail (example 12) or Microsoft Office 365 (example 13)