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Re: Holiday arrangements

Richard Kimber wrote:

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:56:39 -0400 (EDT)
Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@mindspring.com> wrote:




Perhaps we could help you do that if you could be more specific about
the problem.  Have you installed and used fetchmailconf?



Thanks.
Yes.  I configured it, and the test produces:-.

fetchmail: POP3> LIST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 9 messages
fetchmail: POP3< 1 4826
fetchmail: POP3< 2 2814
fetchmail: POP3< 3 12742
fetchmail: POP3< 4 3396
fetchmail: POP3< 5 5145
fetchmail: POP3< 6 7361
fetchmail: POP3< 7 2418
fetchmail: POP3< 8 2317
fetchmail: POP3< 9 3327
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 4826 octets
reading message rkimber@pop.ntlworld.com:1 of 9 (4826 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< On 01 Aug 2002 00:37:30 +0800
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.ntlworld.com
fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying pop.ntlworld.com (protocol POP3) at Wed 31 Jul
2002 18:40:03 BST: poll completed
fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
fetchmail: normal termination, status 10
Done.

When I run it with -v nothing seems to happen, and Sylpheed doesn't detect
an new messages (I assume I need to have this configured to read from
/var/spool/mail with Protocol None (local).

- Richard.
I had a similar problem recently, and eventually traced it down to the local loopback interface never being brought up. Follow the directions at <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/x540.html>[run 'ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1; route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo' as root]. For a quick check to see if this is the problem, run /sbin/ifconfig and see if it lists 'lo' as an interface(if it doesn't than this is your problem). My question is why wasn't the loopback interface configured in the first place? As a corollary, what should I do to make sure it is brought up automagically? Just make my own script and put it in rc2.d? Or is there a less kludgy way...
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