Re: sendmail/fetchmail
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 06:23:13PM -0400, add|ct|on wrote:
> ok maybe i'm simple-minded but i cannot get fetchmail to fetch my mail
> from my pop3 server. running fetchmail in -v mode, there were no errors
> logging into the pop3 server, but once it gets to fetching the messages
> it just sits there on the first one and does nothing.
Are you using procmail? I had the same problem when I misconfigured procmail.
> to test my setup, i tried getting mail from a different pop3 account,
> on another server (friend's account), and it supposedly fetched (did not
> hang that time at all, completed without errors or incident), BUT,
> stranger still, i have no idea WHERE it put the mail if it really did
> fetch it. i ran fetchmail as root, and root had no mail. i was unable to
> locate this supposedly fetched mail anywhere on my system.
> another odd tidbit is this: sendmail runs on boot, of course, but if i
> check with ps x a while later its mysteriously GONE. i restart it, and
> check, and its there, but again check later and its gone AGAIN. someone
> please tell me why it keeps disappearing on me and i'll be very
> thankful.
> if i can manage to keep sendmail running for a bit, i can send email
> without problems. THAT works fine, at least, without incident. <g>
> info about my system (in case its important) are as follows: i'm
> running potato with kernel 2.2.6. and the potato versions of fetchmail
> and sendmail. (prepackaged .debs, if that matters also).
> i'm new at email on linux systems and i have no idea what i'm doing, to
> be honest. in fact, i'm not very experienced with any of this. it's
> probably some small bit i have misconfigured, and i have read docs and
> mans but i can't find anything wrong...had an experienced friend telnet
> in as well and he couldn't find any config problems either. any help
> would be highly appreciated. need any more info, feel free to email me.
> gracias!
Sorry, can't help you with the rest of your problems.
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