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hi

i am kinda drupal and civicrm noob. i tried to set up emailprocessor to retrieve emails and store them with the right account, but i can get it to retrieve emails.

when i use the test link:
http://domain/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/EmailProcessor.php?name=username&pass=password&key=site_key&emailtoactivity=1

i get his error: ERROR: Invalid username and/or password

i used admin as user, is that ok? i tried other users too, but they all dont work

any ideas?

thanks, regards,
conte

hi

i have no idea why, but that worked. thanks a lot

do you know a good walkthrough that i can make this automated?

thanks
conte

hi

another thing. i set my email accounts as imap in civicrm. i just noticed that i took all emails from my server and all in my outlook are gone too. where are they and why did civicrm do that?

regards,
conte

Regarding IMAP, I do not know--you might want to discuss that with your host, but CiviCRM actually can't take emails from Outlook on your PC--that's not possible.

Regarding automation, rahulbile is correct--you need a cron job. I mistakenly thought you were asking how to automate the creation of that cron job.

Anyhow see here for how to setup the cron job: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC32/CiviMail+Installation#CiviMailInstallation-SettingUptheCronJob

Hi,

In imap, it moves the messages to folders (processed and ignored)

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P.S. Why would you want to want to access to the mailbox dedicated to the bounces for civicrm ?

Hi,

So that's to manage incoming emails (as opposed to bounces) ?

Been a discussion recently on that, I seem to remember you need to put it as a non default email (otherwise, that's for the bounces) and add a parameter (definitely need it on the cli version). Brian modified the code for the next 3.3 version.

As for how I used it: I have a subfolder "civicrm" in my mailbox, a getmail that fetches this folder on the server into a mailbox and I created a new mailbox "Maildir" on the sever for that. Main reason: didn't want to leave the password of my mailbox in civicrm, felt more comfortable in a config file for getmail.

I'll probably go back to it, and create proper "inbox" mailboxes (eg. office)
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