Arnt Karlsen wrote:
fetchmail: normal termination, status 2 .. checking failed! and it does not seem to matter if I change 'localhost' to the FQDN of my server either. I've been reading that fetchmail is well documented, but I've checked the man pages, and I'm just not getting it. Am I trying to use fetchmail for something it's not intended to be used for? My whole reason for fetchmail was to allow users to access their e-mail via their MUAs (e.g. Outlook Express).
Yes - you're using it incorrectly.Fetchmail acts as a pop client to retrieve mail from outside servers. It then passes it on to whatever e-mail account you specify using the MTA installed on the fetchmail server.
So, in the instance you've given, you would have a fetchmail configuration that retrieve's user A's pop3 mail from their outside server and forwards it to their internal mail account via your local MTA (exim). Assuming this is to be your central server - exim will simply store the mail locally according to your exim configuration. Then you need to provide an interface for workstation clients to access this mail - which the MTA does not provide.
In other words, you need to setup either a POP3 server or an IMAP server on the fetchmail/exim machine.
Daniel