Hello Skippi,
Alas my friend, I am yet to reach geekdom. Since i have a sys admin
over here, never got a chance to learn much. The fact is i faced the
same problem some time back, but was never able to fix it :o( ,
perhaps some of our other friends on this list will be able to help.
Here is what i *think* i know.
mda - mail delivery agent.
if you have used linuxconf and changed your domain name to give your
machine a unique name, then this will happen.
any way, i'll also ask my sys admin over here if he can help out.
besides i'll forward this mail to the linux-india-help mailing list. i
do hope that someone will be able to help. having faced this problem
before, i know how irritating it can be.
i'm really sorry that i cannot tell you more.
Regards,
mario
Skippi wrote:
>
> 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?
> > >
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