On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 01:37:04PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote > Hello everyone, > > Following the "Quickstart Guide to Mutt" have > encountered the following problems: > > $fetchmail -av -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" > fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying yahoo.com (protocol POP3) at > Wed Jul 6 13:51:41 2005: poll started > fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting to > connect to server yahoo.com. > fetchmail: socket error while fetching from yahoo.com > fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying yahoo.com (protocol POP3) at > Wed Jul 6 13:56:41 2005: poll completed > fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) > fetchmail: normal termination, status 2 > > Is that protocole(POP3) correct for yahoo?
If you're using Yahoo.com, I believe that you have to pay for popmail access. I.e., it's not part of the free package. If you do have an account see http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-03.html for the correct settings. > Also, the guide doesn't mention it but do I need to > emerge sendmail? It just says enter m in Muttpager(?) > if I want to use sendmail. > > man mutt mentions sendmail but man sendmail drew a > blank. > > Here's my attempt at emerging sendmail: mutt needs something to provide the functionality of sendmail. sendmail is a huge, complex beast, which you probably don't want to administer. You only need a very basic subset of sendmail in order to push your email "out the door" from your system to your ISP's smarthost. ssmtp provides that basic functionality. The ssmtp binary is "/usr/sbin/ssmtp", and it also usually has a symlink "/usr/sbin/sendmail", for those programs that expect to see sendmail. I strongly recommend removing the sendmail symlink, and inserting a dummy file that cannot be overwritten, by executing the commands... rm /usr/sbin/sendmail touch /usr/sbin/sendmail chmod 555 /usr/sbin/sendmail chattr +i /usr/sbin/sendmail If you set up ssmtp with the sendmail symlink, and don't watch what you're doing, chatty cron jobs will send their output to "root", which will go to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; oops. In your .muttrc, enter the line... set sendmail="/usr/sbin/ssmtp -v -d3" so that mutt knows which MTA to use for sendmail-type services. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
