Re: fetchmail problem

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>]

Here's what I'm using in .fetchmailrc (it works for me, at least):

poll <isp_adress> proto pop3 user <username> password <password> mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d%T" limit 200000

I've also gotten it to work with /usr/bin/formail as MDA.  exim and
smail are MTAs, not MDAs.

hth,

Bob

On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 04:22:52PM -0400, jason and jill wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 
> > I had a similar problem with smail.  I got around it by using specifying
> > a MDA in .fetchmailrc.  
> > 
> > Bob
> > 
> 
> I tried replacing smail with exim, and got same error message.
> 
> Tried to designate exim as MDA in fetchmailrc and got:
> 
> ..exim: neither action flags nor mail addresses given
> ..fetchmail: terminated with signal 13
> Broken pipe
> 
> Got pretty much the same thing last night when I tried designating smail
> in .fetchmailrc.
> 
> fetchmail worked fine until I went to 2.1, dpkg'ed in the 2.0 versions
> of fetchmail and smail, same error messages.
> 
> There must have been something outside of fetchmail and smail which got
> modofied, choking fetchmail, just wish I knew what the s_it it is.
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
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