Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:20:44AM -0000, thus spake John-Mark:
> Hello all
> I have been battling with exim, fetchmail and mutt now for what seems like
> eons! I have made progress over the time and am at a situation now where I
> can receive mal I send to a normal user from root. However when trying to
> connect receive mail from my remote server fetchmail does not seem to be
> passing the mail to exim and therefore I am receiving no mail in the jmj
> mail box. Does nay one have any idea a how I can rectify this problem? Also
> if fetchmail is not transferring mail to exim where is it putting it?
> Thanks for all help which is much appreciated.
> jm
>
First of all establish whether Exim is listening on port 25
$ telnet localhost 25
You should get a response like this
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 glynthebearded.localdomain ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Thu, 23 Nov 2000 20:57:55
+0000
If that works then Exim is where you want it and your problems lie
elsewhere.
How about letting us have a look at your .fetchmailrc?
Some good stuff on setting up fetchmail is on Martin Holland's Noether Linux
site
www.noether.freeserve.co.uk
and for a well-commented .muttrc for beginners try Telsa at
"http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/~hobbit/cave.html";
HTH
Glyn M
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