Re: SUCCESS!!!!!! got the mail combo working!!!!!
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:38:57PM -0400, cmasters wrote:
| Greetings all,
|
| Firstly ... *executing full ceremonial k'ou t'ou* ....
|
| Thank you ~incredibly~ to all that helped. Special thanks to Kurt, Carel,
| dman, Greg, Alan, and Paolo. Your combined responses of "compare your xxx to
| mine", "stick with it, it'll come", and especially "I was once there too
| ..." helped me to overcome the frustration and look at my problem from a
| systematic, follow-the-timeline-and-transmission route.
Glad you got it working now.
| What was it? ... well as some suggested, exim was in fact impeding the
| seamless flow of events. Waaaaaaay down deep in the bottom of the
| config file, in the section that gives delivery instructions via procmail, the
| 'transport' variable had been set to 'local_delivery'. When I changed this
| to 'procmail_pipe' .... voila, all worked ~exactly~ as desired!!!!!
Hmm, interesting. Do you have gads of stuff in
/var/spool/mail/<localuser> ? That would also explain why stuff that
wasn't directed at your username were lost -- there was no local name
"debian-user@..." to deliver to (in /var/spool/mail).
| Apparently when using exim as an MTA, the 'mda procmail' variable in
| 'fetchmail'needs to have '-d <recepient>' flagged, whether is is
| respected or not. Changing the transport instructions in exim seems
| to have the effect of saying "I said to use procmail, now don't ask
| me again!".
Well, sorta, fetchmail uses the local MTA (via SMTP by default).
Then it is up to that MTA (exim) to deal with it (use procmail for
final delivery).
As I said last night, I would check what fetchmail does for me :
$ fetchmail -v -v
<some stuff snipped>
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 4
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 91442 octets
reading message <my external addr>:4 of 4 (91442 octets)
About to rewrite Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON@<somehost>>
Rewritten version is Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON@<somehost>>
About to rewrite From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@<localhost>>
Rewritten version is From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@<localhost>>
About to rewrite To: <my external addr>
Rewritten version is To: <my external addr>
fetchmail: about to deliver with: /usr/sbin/exim dman
#***********************.<lots of these>.**********.* flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 4
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Message 4 has been deleted.
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Pop server at redoaksw.com signing off.
fetchmail: 5.9.3 querying redoaksw.com (protocol POP3) at Fri 30 Nov 2001 03:39:58 PM EST: poll completed
'dman' is my local username, and I have mda="/usr/sbin/exim %T" in
my .fetchmailrc, which is why it says
"about to deliver with: /usr/sbin/exim dman". I have no idea what the
"About to rewrite" stuff is for.
Just some more data for you ...
-D
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