Greetings Carel, Attached you will find a yet again revised copy of my fetchmailrc. rest assured ~all~ usernames and pwords are strictly alphanumeric. I've also included a copy of the most recent logfile. I opted for fetchall rather than keep, as I am continuing to run getmail throughout this trial and am ~not~ running fetchmail in daemon mode.
---- <sanitized> transcript of recent log (not able to save to file from terminal --- fetchmail: 5.5.5 querying <pop.ISP> (protocol POP3) at Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:43:26 -0400 (AST) fetchmail: POP3< +OK <ISP Mail> POP3 server (<Remote POP server release information>) ready Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:49:32 -0400 fetchmail: POP3> USER <remoteuname> fetchmail: POP3< +OK Password rquired for <remoteuname> fetchmail: POP3> PASS * fetchmail: POP3< +OK Maildrop has 1 messages (4416 octets) fetchmail: POP3> STAT fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 4416 1 message for <remoteuname> as <pop.ISP> (4416 octets) fetchmail: POP3> LIST fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3< 1 4416 fetchmail: POP3< . fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1 fetchmail POP3< +OK 4416 octets reading message 1 of 1 (4416 octets) fetchmail: SMTP< 220 <localhostname> ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:43:29 -0400 fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost fetchmail: SMTP< 250-<localhostname> Hello localhost (127.0.0.1) fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<sentto-3590-28121-1007081220-<remoteuname>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=4416 --- interjection ~This~ is the line that caught my eye. I'm assuming that this is supposed to refer to being sent to me at my ISP and ~accepted~ by them, yet my MDA/MTA is rejecting it based on the inane hostname that my ISP assigned me. I'm told that I have an "internally static / externally dynamic" IP address. Any activity from ~outside~ this not-so delightful province would not be able to track my IP. Thusly, the beginning of my domain name is a textual version of my static IP. --- end of interjection fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <sentto-<ENTRY as ABOVE>> is syntatically correct fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is syntatically correct fetchmail: SMTP> DATA fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM) fetchmail: SMTP< 250 OK id=169bm5-0000RL-00 flushed fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1 fetchmail: POP3< +OK Message 1 deleted fetchmail: POP3> QUIT Balance speaks "eloquently" of closing the connection with my ISP. The preceding log leads me to believe that the message was delivered, but yet again checking my spool, $HOME/incoming, or any other locations reveals no such message. I've renamed my procmail to not interfere, and also looked exhasutively over my exim config. No differences other than unames, pwords, and ISP details. I must emphasize that all of these details are interacting quite nicely with 'getmail' but they just aren't working for fetchmail/exim/procmail Thanks again for the help C. Masters
# Configuration created Thu Nov 29 17:34:32 2001 by fetchmailconf set postmaster "LocalUser" set no bouncemail set properties "" poll pop.ISP with proto POP3 and options no dns user REMOTEUSER there with password PWORD is LOCALUSER here options fetchall stripcr warnings 3600 # mda '/usr/bin/procmail -d' antispam -1