Re: fetchmail failing in fetching mail from a pop server

[Robert.Land@t-online.de (Robert Wilhelm Land)]

Elizabeth, the suggested mda command did not work.

For every of the 5 messages awaiting on the pop server I got:
"
....
About to rewrite Resent-Sender: debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
Rewritten version is Resent-Sender: debian-user-request@lists.debian.org

fetchmail: about to deliver with: /usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -f 
bounce-debian-user=robert.land=t-online.de@lists.debian.org rland
#***************************.******************fetchmail: message 5 was 
not the expected length (3839 actual != 3746 expected)
not flushed
......
"

What was that doubling you mentioned a few days ago?

Robert


Elizabeth Barham wrote:
> Robert.Land@t-online.de (Robert Wilhelm Land) writes:
>
> > He explained that his configuration would override exims idea
> > of who the sender is and replace this with as he wrote:
> > "..we want fetchmail to be able to specify the sender of the
> > message to whatever value it derivce from the POP3 server."
>
> > Was he refering to the data in the envelopes being passed from
> >  >pop_server ->to -> fetchmail ->to -> exim < =A0 ?
>
> > Could you give me some assistance in understanding this?
>
> That does not make sense.
>
> The idea is to retrieve the mail from the POP server and send it to a
> local user.
>
> You might want to try the:
>
> mda "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -f %F %T"
>
> and if that does not work, tell us what it says when you try to run
> it.
>
> Why don't you just run exim as a daemon, anyway?
>
> Elizabeth