Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> [2003:08:15:19:15:29-0400] scribed: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:59:27PM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: > > I haven't changed any configuration files and I don't see any new > > fetchmail bugs, but I'm having big problems the last few days. > > > > Sid, fetchmail, exim3 (I've been meaning to upgrade to exim4, but I'm > > not going to do that when my mail is already broken.) > > > > I'm seeing stuff like this in my fetchmail log: > > I had something similar. I was having to telnet into the pop server > every now and again to delete some message that was screwing up > fetchmail. I finally discovered that fetchmail was passing the message > to exim, but exim was refusing it and issuing an error. I didn't really > need exim, because all exim did was pass my message to procmail anyway, > so I configured fetchmail to pass my mail directly to procmail. You know, I've been wondering about this for quite sometime. What are the tradeoffs between these two scenarios? fetchmail -> exim -> procmail fetchmail -> procmail There must be something that exim can/does do that procmail cannot? What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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