Thanks Mario -- what you told me to do does in fact work. I can read the
email in my terminal. Looks like the problem is my mda settings --
whatever the heck those are.
Ok, next dumb question. Can you tell me how to use this sendmail thingy?
Is this a deamon which is suppose to be running in the background? I
assume that sendmail is this "mda" you mentioned? I've looked over the
sendmail manpage, but I'm already confused. I'm going back to try again
tho.
Thanks for the help, at least I know where the problem isn't.
Skippi
On Tue, 05 Feb 2002, Mario Michael da Costa wrote:
> Hello Skippi,
> looks like you have a sendmail problem. what happens is fetchmail
> after downloading the mail passes it on to an mda like sendmail. to
> check whether this is infact your problem try the using the "--mda
> /bin/cat", "--keep" and the "--fetchlimit 1" options. if you can then
> read your first email on the screen, then the problem lies in your mda
> settings.
>
> HTH,
> mario
>
>
>
>
> Skippi wrote:
> >
> > Howdy all. Here is the deal. I am currently doing email in Linux
> using
> > Spruce & that is working just fine. I want to migrate to Pygmy. Here
> is
> > the rub. Pygmy needs an external program to fetch mail. So I have
> been
> > trying to set up fetchmail, but it's not syncronizeing with the servers
> > where my accounts are at. It's connecting, it's seeing mail is there,
> but
> > can not pull it in. I've been to the fetchmail homepage & check the
> FAQ &
> > How-To posted there, but they are not helping -- or if the answer is
> there
> > I'm not finding it.
> >
> > I am using Mandrake 7.2. Internet connection works, email works with
> other
> > programs. I am trying to pick up mail from 2 different servers. The
> > timeout was originally 300 seconds, I bumped it down to 30 seconds just
> to
> > speed things up but still got the same errors at 300 seconds, which
> made me
> > guess that a longer timeout setting was not the solution.
> >
> > here is my fetchmail config file, with my passwords replaced with the
> word
> > "password":
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > # Configuration created Mon Feb 4 18:51:41 2002 by fetchmailconf
> > set postmaster "skippi"
> > set nobouncemail
> > set properties ""
> > poll 204eastsouth.com via 204eastsouth.com
> > with proto POP3 timeout 30 and options no dns
> > user 'skippi' there with password 'password' is skippi here
> options
> > fetchall warnings 3600
> > antispam 571 550 501 554
> >
> > poll lamar.colostate.edu timeout 30 and options no dns
> > user 'skippi' there with password 'password' is skippi here
> options
> > fetchall warnings 3600
> > antispam 571 550 501 554
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > and here is the output of my attempt to run fetchmail:
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > fetchmail: 5.5.2 querying 204eastsouth.com (protocol POP3) at Mon, 04
> Feb
> > 2002 20:59:01 -0700 (MST)
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK POP3 204eastsouth.com v2000.70rh server ready
> > fetchmail: POP3> USER skippi
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK User name accepted, password please
> > fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK Mailbox open, 1 messages
> > fetchmail: POP3> STAT
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 12064
> > 1 message for skippi at 204eastsouth.com (12064 octets).
> > fetchmail: POP3> LIST
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK Mailbox scan listing follows
> > fetchmail: POP3< 1 12064
> > fetchmail: POP3< .
> > fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 12064 octets
> > reading message 1 of 1 (12064 octets)
> > fetchmail: timeout after 30 seconds waiting for listener to respond.
> > fetchmail: Query status=7 (ERROR)
> > fetchmail: 5.5.2 querying lamar.colostate.edu (protocol auto) at Mon,
> 04
> > Feb 2002 20:59:36 -0700 (MST)
> > fetchmail: 5.5.2 querying lamar.colostate.edu (protocol IMAP) at Mon,
> 04
> > Feb 2002 20:59:36 -0700 (MST)
> > fetchmail: IMAP< * OK lamar.colostate.edu IMAP4rev1 v10.234 server
> ready
> > fetchmail: IMAP> A0001 CAPABILITY
> > fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4REV1 NAMESPACE IDLE SCAN SORT
> > AUTH=LOGIN THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT
> > fetchmail: IMAP< A0001 OK CAPABILITY completed
> > fetchmail: IMAP> A0002 LOGIN "skippi" "*"
> > fetchmail: IMAP< A0002 OK LOGIN completed
> > fetchmail: IMAP> A0003 SELECT "INBOX"
> > fetchmail: IMAP< * 1 EXISTS
> > fetchmail: IMAP< * 0 RECENT
> > fetchmail: IMAP< * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1003279062] UID validity status
> > fetchmail: IMAP< * OK [UIDNEXT 161] Predicted next UID
> > fetchmail: IMAP< * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)
> > fetchmail: IMAP< * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\* \Answered \Flagged \Deleted
> > \Draft \Seen)] Permanent flags
> > fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed
> > 1 message (1 seen) for skippi at lamar.colostate.edu.
> > fetchmail: IMAP> A0004 FETCH 1 RFC822.SIZE
> > fetchmail: IMAP< * 1 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 12217)
> > fetchmail: IMAP< A0004 OK FETCH completed
> > fetchmail: IMAP> A0005 FETCH 1 RFC822.HEADER
> > fetchmail: IMAP< * 1 FETCH (RFC822.HEADER {856}
> > reading message 1 of 1 (856 header octets)
> > fetchmail: timeout after 30 seconds waiting for listener to respond.
> > fetchmail: 5.5.2 querying lamar.colostate.edu (protocol POP3) at Mon,
> 04
> > Feb 2002 21:00:09 -0700 (MST)
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK POP3 lamar.colostate.edu v4.47 server ready
> > fetchmail: POP3> USER skippi
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK User name accepted, password please
> > fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK Mailbox open, 1 messages
> > fetchmail: POP3> STAT
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 12229
> > 1 message for skippi at lamar.colostate.edu (12229 octets).
> > fetchmail: POP3> LIST
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK Mailbox scan listing follows
> > fetchmail: POP3< 1 12229
> > fetchmail: POP3< .
> > fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 12229 octets
> > reading message 1 of 1 (12229 octets)
> > fetchmail: timeout after 30 seconds waiting for listener to respond.
> > fetchmail: Query status=7 (ERROR)
> > fetchmail: normal termination, status 7
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Any suggestions, clues or ideas?
> >
> > Can anyone suggest another program which Pygmy can use to retrieve
> mail?
> >
> > Thanks much for any help.
> > Skippi
> >
> > --
> > -----------------------------------------
> > Skippi
> > On The Fly Photography
> > http://204EastSouth.com
> > Meditation -- Yoga -- Linux -- Muffins
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>
>
--
-----------------------------------------
Skippi
On The Fly Photography
http://204EastSouth.com
Meditation -- Yoga -- Linux -- Muffins
The Secrets of Life
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12
GAT d-(?) s: a C++ L++(+++) P E- W++ !N o? K- w--- o@ M+ PS+ PE++ Y+
PGP- t++@ 5+++ X++ R+ tv-- b++ DI++++ D+ G e+ h+ r- y++
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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