Re: fetchmail won't fetch
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:01:47PM -0600, ktb wrote:
> I'm a little farther along with my mail trials. Out going works
> fine but I can't receive with fetchmail. I'm using exim, fetchmail
> and pine on Potato.
> My /etc/hosts contains the following line -
> 192.168.10.7 debian.local debian
>
> This is how I answered the questions from eximconfig:
> *Visible mail name = debian.local
> *Other names appearing on incoming = none
> *Relay for domains = none
> *Relay for local machines = 192.168.10.0/24
> *RBL = no
> *Which machine is smarthost = mail.peoplepc.com
> (I wasn't sure if I should put smpt.peoplepc.com hear or
> mail.peoplepc.com)
> *Postmaster mail to = kent
>
> My .fetchmailrc:
> # Configuration created Sat Nov 18 15:38:41 2000 by fetchmailconf
> set postmaster "kent"
> set bouncemail
> set properties ""
> poll smtp.peoplepc.com with proto POP3
> user xyf@peoplepc.com there with password xxxx is
> xyf@peoplepc.com here
change this to your local user name, it is sent on your local machine
to this address, so i suggest you replace this with:
user xyf@peoplepc.com there with password xxxx is kent here
>
> (here again I'm not sure if it should be smpt.peoplepc.com or
> mail.peoplepc.com)
they refer to the same ip, so it doesn't really matter, mail
is a bit more usual then smtp for a pop3 server
>
>
> Readout of fetchmail after sending a test mail to my isp:
> ###########################################################
> kent@debian:~$ fetchmail -av
> fetchmail: 5.3.3 querying smtp.peoplepc.com (protocol POP3) at Sat,
> 18 Nov 2000 15:43:02 -0600 (CST)
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK <1836.974583814@mail.peoplepc.com>
> fetchmail: POP3> USER xyf@peoplepc.com
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK
> fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK
> fetchmail: POP3> STAT
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 656
> 1 message for xyf@peoplepc.com at smtp.peoplepc.com (656 octets).
> fetchmail: POP3> LIST
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK
> fetchmail: POP3< 1 656
> fetchmail: POP3< .
> fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK
> reading message 1 of 1 (656 octets)
> fetchmail: SMTP< 220 debian ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Sat, 18 Nov 2000
> 15:43:11 -0600
> fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250-debian Hello localhost [127.0.0.1]
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP
> fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<kent@peoplepc.com> SIZE=656
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <kent@peoplepc.com> is syntactically correct
> fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<xyf@peoplepc.com>
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <xyf@peoplepc.com> is syntactically correct
> fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
> fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by
> itself
> #***fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 OK id=13xFlP-0002Zh-00
> flushed
> fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK
> fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK
> fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
> fetchmail: SMTP< 221 debian closing connection
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 0
> #########################################################
>
> I don't see any errors here. It seems to be fetching but I can't
> find the email on my machine. It should be in /var/spool/mail/kent
> as that is where exim is pointed to. Sorry for the length here.
> What am I doing wrong?
the ' ..... is xyz@peoplepc.com here ' line, mail is sent to xyz@peoplepc.com,
so will never reach kent@localhost
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Where's the DIR command?
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