Re: Problems with fetchmail.. can anyone help?
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 10:45:43AM -0500, Colin McMillen wrote:
| I am trying to get my mail from a remote server rather than through
| Netscape Mail. I have the fetchmail package installed, but it can't seem
| to get mail from my server. Can someone point out what I am doing wrong?
|
| [shadow@shadow ~] fetchmail -u mcmi0037 mcmi0037.email.umn.edu
| Enter password for mcmi0037@mcmi0037.email.umn.edu:
| 1 message for mcmi0037 at mcmi0037.email.umn.edu (645 octets).
| reading message 1 of 1 (638 header octets) fetchmail: SMTP listener
| doesn't like recipient address `shadow@localhost'
| fetchmail: can't even send to shadow!
| fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from
| mcmi0037.email.umn.edu
| fetchmail: Query status=10
I've had the same problem. Your local mail handler (exim,
sendmail, whatever) is not configured properly.
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Eric G. Miller
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