Subject: fetchmail/fetchpop etc.
Date: Sat, May 26, 2001 at 08:03:41AM +1000
In reply to:Alan Davis
Quoting Alan Davis(adavis@saipan.com):
> For years I used fetchmail to fetch the mail on my ISP's POP3 server.
> Now, for at least a year, I have had trouble with fetchmail, and have resorted to fetchpop. Fetchpop doesn't work right for my current ISP---but that's another issue.
>
> With fetchmail, I get something like the following. I suspect there is something wrong with the way I am setting my system up, since a new box I have just installed has a similar behavior.
>
> ----------------- BEGIN error message
> bash-2.05$ fetchmail
> 5 messages (5 seen) for spn2520 at mail.saipan.com.
> reading message 1 of 5 (1503 header octets) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
I recall that I had this a looong time ago. IIRC I fixed it by adding
local_domains = localhost:mtntop.home
^^^^^^^^^^
in /etc/exim.conf
The messages you get below do not ring a bell tho.
> fetchmail: can't raise the listener; falling back to $sendmail %Tsh: spn2520: command not found
> (1121 body octets) .fetchmail: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error
> fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.saipan.com
> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
> fetchmail: terminated with signal 13
> bash-2.05$
> ----------------- END error message
>
I have one other localhost entry in exim.conf
host_accept_relay = localhost:192.168.1.0/16
:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)
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