Ok -- making progress I think. In the fetchmail configuration editor I found where it ask you to tell it the "local delivery agent". So I put "sendmail" in there. Then when I test fetchmail it can not find sendmail. Turns out that I don't have access to sendmail as user, but it is in my path when I am root.
Can someone tell me if this is normal? I assume (oh that word) that the user has to be able to access sendmail for this to work, so what is the proper way to make this happen? Is it a matter of changing file permissions on sendmail, or copying it to the user bin directory, or is there a better way to achieve this result? Does it have anything to do with the groups I am a member of? My user account is in the following groups: audio cdrom cdwriter disk floppy games mail nobody popusers (i'm guessing this relates to POP mail?) postfix pppusers (i'm guessing this relates to PPP connections?) skippi users Thanks Peter -- Skippi On Tue, 05 Feb 2002, Peter Møller Neergaard wrote: > Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 01:19:11 -0500 > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Peter Møller Neergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] fetchmail problem > > On February 4, 2002, skippi wrote: > > S> Is this a deamon which is suppose to be running in the > S> background? > > Sendmail is not a daemon, but a program that can be invoked everytime > you send the mail. It will take care of queueing and relaying the > mail appropriately. What is appropriate depends on your system, > i.e., are on stand-alone machine you will typically relay all your > mail to an SMTP-server, while you on a machine with a mail server will > leave the message to the mail server. The beauty of sendmail is that > all this is hidden behind the scenes on a well-configured system. > > I know Mario mentioned sendmail, but if you take a close look at the > following snip from the fetchmail man page: > > As each message is retrieved fetchmail normally delivers it via > SMTP to port 25 on the machine it is running on (localhost), > just as though it were being passed in over a normal TCP/IP > link. The mail will then be delivered locally via your > system's MDA (Mail Delivery Agent, usually sendmail(8) but your > system may use a different one such as smail, mmdf, exim, or > qmail). All the delivery-control mechanisms (such as .forward > files) normally available through your system MDA and local > delivery agents will therefore work. > > If no port 25 listener is available, but your fetchmail > compilation detected or was told about a reliable local MDA, it > will use that MDA for local delivery instead. At build time, > fetchmail normally looks for executable procmail(1) and > sendmail(1) binaries. > > you'll notice that the default behavior depends on whether you a > running SMTP server or not. You initial message could therefore be > caused by an ill-configured SMTP server. I would therefore also check > whether you machine is listening on port 25. > > Best > > Peter > -- > http://www.linearity.org/turtle/contact.html > ``When you have had all the experiences, met all the famous people, > made some money, toured the world and got all the acclaim you still > think--is that it? Some might be satisfied--but I wasn't'' -- G. Harrison > > > -- ----------------------------------------- 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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