Incoming from Joost Witteveen: > s. keeling wrote: > >fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting for listener to respond. > >fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while delivering to SMTP > >host mail.spots.ab.ca > > Seems you try to deliver to your (local) SMTP server. > I've had problems with that too (SMTP server refusing to accept the > email for example for SPAM protection reasons) > > To solve that, I'm using in .fetchmailrc (delivers to procmail): > > poll pop3.sever.tld protocol pop3 username joostje password PASSWD > mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
That worked, thanks! Much appreciated. :-) Now I suppose I just have to figure out why my exim is refusing to accept mail from my ISP's mailhost. I'm pretty sure I didn't touch exim's config. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me. - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
