Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems
Hi Marcus Brinkmann; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 11:59:20PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote:
> >
> > Ok. I've narrowed it down -- smail doesn't like mail addressed to
> > "user@localhost" -- if I tell fetchmail to use procmail as the delivery
>
> (how can you do this - using procmail in fetchmailrc ?)
>
> > agent, everything is fine, but otherwise sendmail seems to send itself
> > into infinite loops trying to deliver to "localhost" and then it just
> > returns "too many hops" errors.
> >
> > Sometimes it doesn't seem to be listening on port 25, either ... <telnet
> > localhost 25> works sometimes, other times I get "connection refused"
> > errors. Same when I try to connect directly to port 25 from a remote
> > hosts ... sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
>
> Hello!
>
> I have a similar problem with newest smail+procmail+fetchmail.
>
> I have this in my /etc/smail/transports:
> local: return_path, local, from, driver=pipe; user=root,
> cmd="/usr/bin/procmail -d $($user$)"
>
> and fetchmail does need *hours* to download a few hundred mails (actually,
> smail needs most of the time. It tries to verificate the mail headers, which
> takes about three seconds per mail. This is nasty! as it processes the mail
> consecutive)
>
> Any Help is appreciatet, thank you,
> Marcus
>
> --
Yup, same here. It takes a *very long* time for the mail to get from fetchmail
to my mailbox. Has anyone tried exim package and what (if any) downsides are to
use the exim instead of the smail package?
Damir
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