Help: using RT with a gmail acct

Hi All,

I've managed to get RT to send emails using a gmail account, but now I'm trying to get it to read emails.

If understand this [email/mta/mua/etc] all correctly then I have to have my own mta (as described here: http://www.spencerstirling.com/computergeek/email.html) so that the mail will be delivered properly to RT 

RT will not go out and read a mailbox -- is this correct?

thanks
al;

RT will not go out and read a mailbox – is this correct?

RT contains neither an MTA nor a MUA.
It hands mail off to an MTA to be delivered.
It expects you to invoke rt-mailgate with mail, whether than be via an
MTA, or in your case, via something like fetchmail that can read from
gmail.

-kevin

I have fetchmail sucking in emails from gmail, and pushing that to
rt-mailgate.

it’s pretty easy to setup.

Install fetchmail, get it running as per it’s instructions and config it
something like this

poll imap.gmail.com proto imap port 993:
username youraccount@gmail.com password yourpass ssl mda “/perl
rt
-mailgate --url --queue --action ”

I am pretty sure you have to log into the gmail account and turn on imap
for you to be able to use fetchmail in imap mode…

Hope that helps!
Mike.On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Al Joslin allen.joslin@gmail.com wrote:

Hi All,

I’ve managed to get RT to send emails using a gmail account, but now I’m
trying to get it to read emails.

If understand this [email/mta/mua/etc] all correctly then I have to have
my own mta (as described here:
Email in Debian Linux using Exim4 and Courier IMAP) so that the mail
will be delivered properly to RT

RT will not go out and read a mailbox – is this correct?

thanks
al;


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