Re: fetchmail problem
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 08:21:48AM -0600, Eduard Breuer wrote:
> Andreas Rippl wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 07:36:30PM -0600, Eduard Breuer wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Here are few things that got me maybe little further please read bellow
> >>with my comments and help if you can.
> >>thanx
> >>
> >>I changes the .fetchmailrc file by recomendations from you guys and it
> >>seems that it got me little further, but got into new error messages.
> >>
> >>poll austrialpinusa.com
> >>user "pedro@austrialpinusa.com" there is pedro here
> >>
> >>I put the whole email address, I remembered that I did it on webmail I
> >>have to use my whole email address as My login. deleted the password
> >>part and it requested my loging.. good
> >>
> >># user linux there is pedro here
> >>less users less pain..
> >>
> >># user baka there is localbaka here;
> >>
> >>executed the fetchmail...
> >>
> >>pedro@sajo:~$ fetchmail -L fetchmail.log
> >>Enter password for pedro@austrialpinusa.com@austrialpinusa.com:
> >>
> >>the log
> >>pedro@sajo:~$ cat fetchmail.log
> >>fetchmail: starting fetchmail 5.9.11 daemon
> >>fetchmail: 4 messages for pedro@austrialpinusa.com at austrialpinusa.com.
> >>fetchmail: reading message pedro@austrialpinusa.com@austrialpinusa.com:1
> >>of 4 (1527 header octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> >>fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from austrialpinusa.com
> >>fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
> >>pedro@sajo:~$
> >>
> >>here I am lost
> >>help please....
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Hi Eduard,
> >
> >the 'SMTP connect to localhost failed' indicates that you are connecting
> >to your mail provider correctly as you can see that you are already
> >reading message one of four. But as the message is about to be passed to
> >your local mail transfer agent (MTA), you see that there is no
> >connection possible. That means that a) you don't have one installed, or
> >b) it is not configured correctly. Try
> >
> >telnet localhost 25
> >
> >For my configuration I get a response
> >
> >Trying 127.0.0.1...
> >Connected to localhost.
> >Escape character is '^]'.
> >220 cvpoly2 MasqMail 0.2.20 ESMTP
> >
> >>From the above error message, you should not get a connection at all.
> >Then you can do 'man sendmail', to see which, if any MTA you have
> >installed. If there is none, you can choose one of (amongst others)
> >exim4, sendmail, postfix, masqmail...
> >
> >I personally have come to like postfix and masqmail recently.
> >
> >Good luck,
> >
> >Andreas
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Thanx for the typ. I did telnet localhost 25
> got :
>
> pedro@sajo:~$ telnet localhost 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to sajo.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 2005-02-12 01:16:49 Failed to open configuration file /etc/exim/exim.conf
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> Here is what I am comfused about. I read on some page that I should use
> procmail. Than somewhere I read that Exim, somewhere else sendmail. It
> seems that procmail is most likely the easiest to set up. Is that right?
> Please advise me on which to choose and how to set it up please. Thank
> you so much for all the usefull help and hints.
>
> ed.
>
If you watch the man page for procmail, you will find that procmail is no
replacement for a proper mail transfer agent, even if it is not too
clearly explained. the man page speaks of a 'mail processor' and that's
what I use it for. Basically, I put a lot of rules (see 'man procmailrc'
and 'man procmailex') into ~/.procmailrc which filter my incoming mail
into the appropriate mailboxes, e.g.:
:0:
* ^To.*debian-user@lists.debian.org
|gzip >> debian/debian-user.gz
to pipe everything addressed to debian-user@lists.debian.org through
gzip and append it to debian-user.gz.
Your output shows that you have indeed exim installed, but that the
configuration file can't be read for some reason. Which version
of Debian do you have - do you run stable, testing, unstable?
Do a 'dpkg -l|grep exim' to find out your exim version.
My first suggestion would be to do 'dpkg-reconfigure exim(4)-config',
depending on your Debian version (or install it if it isn't there) as
I think (not too sure however) that the configuration is
done via this package. You should also be able to find an example
exim.conf somewhere under /usr/share/exim*. Anyways, I don't like exim
as I mentioned, I used to use postfix, and now masqmail, so I am not the
best help in that respect. So to sum up, you are just left with properly
configuring your MTA of choice: exim, postfix, masqmail, sendmail,
courier (all which come to mind, there surely are others); that in
itself can be a bit daunting as I found out for myself, but you don't
have too much work left.
Hth,
Andreas
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