fetchmail/exim problem

["Bruce Z. Lysik" <eldrik@logrus.com>]

Hi folks,

Just recently I started having a wierd fetchmail problem.  This morning I
noticed I didn't have any email.  Pretty odd.  I'm running woody, exim, and
fetchmail. Checking /var/log/mail.log I see:

Aug 17 00:09:44 quicksilver fetchmail[30949]: 612 messages for eldrik at
maelstr
om.logrus.com (2056876 octets).
Aug 17 00:09:44 quicksilver fetchmail[30949]: reading message 1 of 612
(2529 oct
ets)
Aug 17 00:09:44 quicksilver fetchmail[30949]: MDA open failed
Aug 17 00:09:44 quicksilver fetchmail[30949]: MDA error while fetching from
mael
strom.logrus.com
Aug 17 00:09:44 quicksilver fetchmail[30949]: Query status=6 (IOERR)

I had fetchmail running as fetchmail, with this in /etc/fetchmailrc:

# Configuration created Thu Apr 13 16:36:10 2000 by fetchmailconf
poll maelstrom.logrus.com with proto POP3
      user "eldrik" there with password "XXXXXXXX" is eldrik here options
forcecr

I tried running fetchmail as my local user, and it delivered to exim fine.
Then I set in /etc/defaults/fetchmail, RUNASROOT=true, and it delivers fine.

Anyone have any ideas?


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