Well fetchmail is clearly not very happy.
Here are a few things you should know about fetchmail.
The daemon should not be running when you test fetchmail.
If you run fetchmail as a user, it should use the ~/.fetchmailrc config file.
This file MUST have read and write perms for the user ONLY, or else it does
not work.
If you want to fetchmail for more than one user you should run it as a daemon
as root in which case it uses the /etc/fetchmailrc configuration file.
The easiest way to configure this is just to install the fetchmail-daemon RPM,
then you can start the daemon with
service fetchmail start
Here is what my /etc/fetchmailrc looks like (with passwords removed)
set postmaster "derek"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
poll pop.ntlworld.com with proto POP3
user 'my_username' there with password 'my_password' is 'derek' here
options fetchall
poll email.cwcom.net with proto POP3
user 'another_user' there with password 'another_password' is 'derek'
here options fetchall
poll pop.ntlworld.com with proto POP3
user 'another_user' there with password 'password' is 'rosie' here
options fetchall
How does yours look?, and is fetchmail running as a user or root? and are you
sure the configuration file webmin is testing is the same one the daemon
uses?
derek
On Friday 15 Nov 2002 2:17 pm, Jordan R. Thompson wrote:
> Here is what I get when I test the connection via webmin (What does all of
> this mean and why is it trying to do smtp for pop?):
>
>
> Checking for mail on server(s) with command fetchmail -v -f
> '/home/jordan/.fetchmailrc' pop-server.cfl.rr.com ..
>
> fetchmail: 6.1.0 querying pop-server.cfl.rr.com (protocol POP3) at Fri Nov
> 15 08:50:32 2002: poll started
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK InterMail POP3 server ready.
> fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
> fetchmail: POP3< -ERR Invalid command; valid commands: USER, QUIT
> fetchmail: Invalid command; valid commands: USER, QUIT
> fetchmail: Repoll immediately on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK InterMail POP3 server ready.
> fetchmail: POP3> USER jordanthompson
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK please send PASS command
> fetchmail: POP3> PASS
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK jordanthompson is welcome here
> fetchmail: POP3> STAT
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 386 2775877
> fetchmail: POP3> LAST
> fetchmail: POP3< -ERR Invalid command; valid commands: DELE, LIST, NOOP,
> RETR, RSET, STAT, TOP, UIDL or QUIT
> fetchmail: Invalid command; valid commands: DELE, LIST, NOOP, RETR, RSET,
> STAT, TOP, UIDL or QUIT
> fetchmail: POP3> UIDL
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 386 messages
> fetchmail: POP3< 1 <001201c289f4$1ad04ec0$6401a8c0@phong>
> ...fetchmail: POP3< 386
> <090ED6DFF3D5D611A81400508B8B5A3F01C8F2@SKYLLA>fetchmail: POP3< .386
> messages (7 seen) for jordanthompson at mail.cfl.rr.com (2775877
> octets).fetchmail: POP3> LISTfetchmail: POP3< +OK 386 messagesfetchmail:
> POP3< 1 2190...fetchmail: POP3< 386 5171
> fetchmail: POP3< .
> skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 (2190 octets) not flushed
> skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2 (2282 octets) not flushed
> skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3 (1718 octets) not flushed
> skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4 (1452 octets) not flushed
> skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:5 (1463 octets) not flushed
> skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:6 (1639 octets) not flushed
> skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:7 (2836 octets) not flushed
> fetchmail: POP3> RETR 8
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1348 octets
> reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:8 of 386 (1348 octets)
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> fetchmail: POP3< .
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop-server.cfl.rr.com
> fetchmail: 6.1.0 querying pop-server.cfl.rr.com (protocol POP3) at Fri Nov
> 15 08:50:46 2002: poll completed
> fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 10
> .. checking failed! thanksjordan
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