Re: Fetchmail and exim ... again
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:25:24PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> As root, try running eximon and looking at exim's logs in /var/log/exim (as
> I recall) to see if it reports any activity. The first thing is to figure
> out if the problem is exim or fetchmail. I use that combination, though I
> recall the setup was a bit tricky. The exim manual has a section for
> intermittently connected hosts, which is what you want.
And be sure to set the keep and fetchall flags for fetchmail, so as to
prevent loosing any mail in the process. The keep-flag tells fetchmail
*not* to delete the mail at your IPS after dowloading it succesfully.
Ant the fetchall-flag tells it to fetch all mail, even mail that has
been fetched before.
> >I hate testing this too much, as I'm sure everyone can understand !! ;)
no need to loose mail in the testing face, se above.
Try running "fetchmail -a -k -v -v" to get a full transcript of what is
going on, this will show you whether fetchmail or exim is to blame.
You could also try to mail to yourself locally like:
$ mutt your-local-account -s testing </dev/null
If this get's delivered correctly, exim is likely okee.
--
groetjes, carel
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