No, I don't think postfix is interfering... the postmaster setting in fetchmail is for admin purposes.. any admin/error messages should go to the postmaster, which is defined in /etc/postfix/aliases to go to root.. (and you should set the root alias in there to go to your account so you get the messages.)
Postfix is by far the easiest MTA to setup and run.. Sendmail is argueably the hardest. (I used sendmail back when I was a redhat user.) The only think that makes postfix slightly harder in mandrake is that postfix on mandrake runs in a chroot jail.. (meaning that you will need to manually make sure the files in /var/spool/postfix/etc match those of the same name in /etc.) Other then that postfix won't effect fetchmail at all. However, if after alot of fiddling you find postfix is just not working as it should be, remove it and reinstall... I remember on the list and experianced it myself where the postfix installed during setup was missing symlinks in its libs dir that should have been created during the packages installation, rpm -e postfix followed by rpm -ivh postfix fixed that problem. regards Franki -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of JoeHill Sent: Friday, 18 July 2003 8:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix and POP3 On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 06:14:45 +0800 "Frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > If I might ask,, why did you load on the courier rpm?? > > the only time I have done that was for imap.. > > As far as pop3 goes, the normal imap rpm contains a perfectly > good pop3 server that is widely used, well documented and > easier to get working. (because you don't have to do anything > other then enable it in /etc/xinetd.d ) Okay, got that. Thanks, someone recommended Courier somewhere, I can't remember...losing track...aaaaarrrrrrhhhh! Installed the imap package, and I notice in /etc/xintetd.d I already have imap, imaps, ipop2, and ipop3. Is it ipop3 I want? I looked in drakconf under services, but it was not showing as "started", even after a reboot. > As for fetchmail,,, do this for a test.. > > copy the .fetchmailrc to the root home directory and as root > type: > fetchmail > > (you might want to turn off or remove fetchmail-daemon first.) > > see if that gets your mail delivered properly.. > > if it doesn't, install and run fetchmailconf > (fetchmailconf-6.1.0-1.1mdk on my mdk9 system) got that. > Then run "fetchmailconf" in a root terminal.... > > it will then all be pretty obvious what all the settings do its > a nice pretty gui. > > once you have all that sorted, reinstall fetchmail-daemon and > move your .fetchmailrc to /etc/fetchmailrc and give that a shot. > > see how that does it for you.. Thanks for the attention! One question, I asked Todd below, could Postfix be interfering? Why would the mail end up in /var/spool/mail/postfix? -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 ++++++++++++++++++++++ A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
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