Re: [expert] Help with fetchmail/fetchmailconf

2002-11-23 Thread Philip Webb
021121 Praedor Tempus wrote:
 I have fetchmail 6.1.0 and fetchmailconf.
 I ran fetchmailconf to configure fetchmail during an initial test
 but now the test is over and I want to change its polling behavior.
 I try to run fetchmailconf now and it errors out with this:
   Can't read configuration output of fetchmail --configdump.

i ran into this with 6.1.0  went back to 5.9.12 ; 6.1.2 is out  mb ok.
check that you have  /etc/fetchmailrc  as well as  ~/.fetchmailrc :
the former is needed to run the daemon.

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[expert] Help with fetchmail/fetchmailconf

2002-11-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
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I have been running postfix on my system for a long time, primarily for 
sending mail, receiving mail from my yahoo pop mail account.  I am now trying 
to setup fetchmail to work with postfix and procmail plus spamassassin to act 
for both incoming and outgoing mail.  

I have fetchmail 6.1.0 and fetchmailconf.  I ran fetchmailconf to configure 
fetchmail during an initial test but now the test is over and I want to 
change its polling behavior.  I try to run fetchmailconf now and it errors 
out with this:
[praedor@lapdog praedor]$ fetchmailconf
Can't read configuration output of fetchmail --configdump.

This has happened twice.  I can only run fetchmailconf once.  After that, it 
is impossible because it errors out.  What is the problem here and how do I 
fix it?

praedor
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[expert] Help with fetchmail?

2002-11-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
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Something has gone wrong here.  I have tried to setup fetchmail to work with 
my local postfix and procmail.  I have fetchmail setup to query my yahoo pop 
mail server every 2 minutes.  It is actually downloading the mail from yahoo 
to what appears to be a blackhole on my system, however.

In testing, I logged into the yahoo web mail interface and saw a new message 
there in my inbox.  I ran fetchmail and it vanished from yahoo but it never 
appeared on my system here.

I am using kmail and have set it for local mail.  I have tried pointing it to 
/var/spool/mail/praedor and /var/mail/praedor with no affect.  No new 
messages ever appear.  I cannot find where fetchmail is placing the mail.

Where might I look to find the location fetchmail is stashing messages?

praedor
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Re: [expert] Help with fetchmail?

2002-11-21 Thread Jerry A!
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:49:13AM -0500, Praedor Tempus wrote:
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: Something has gone wrong here.  I have tried to setup fetchmail to work with 
: my local postfix and procmail.  I have fetchmail setup to query my yahoo pop 
: mail server every 2 minutes.  It is actually downloading the mail from yahoo 
: to what appears to be a blackhole on my system, however.
: 
: In testing, I logged into the yahoo web mail interface and saw a new message 
: there in my inbox.  I ran fetchmail and it vanished from yahoo but it never 
: appeared on my system here.
: 
: I am using kmail and have set it for local mail.  I have tried pointing it to 
: /var/spool/mail/praedor and /var/mail/praedor with no affect.  No new 
: messages ever appear.  I cannot find where fetchmail is placing the mail.
: 
: Where might I look to find the location fetchmail is stashing messages?

Try looking through /var/log/mail/* and seeing where postfix says it's
delivering the mail?  /var/log/mail/info should tell you where it's
being delivered to, and /var/log/mail/errors should show you if it's
being bounced.

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Re: [expert] Help with fetchmail?

2002-11-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
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I was wrong.  The new message WERE coming in and being processed by procmail 
into their respective KMail folders.  The thing is, they never show up as new 
and unread messages (red text), instead showing up as already read, making it 
hard to track them.

praedor

On Thursday 21 November 2002 11:49 am, Praedor Tempus wrote:
 Something has gone wrong here.  I have tried to setup fetchmail to work
 with my local postfix and procmail.  I have fetchmail setup to query my
 yahoo pop mail server every 2 minutes.  It is actually downloading the mail
 from yahoo to what appears to be a blackhole on my system, however.

 In testing, I logged into the yahoo web mail interface and saw a new
 message there in my inbox.  I ran fetchmail and it vanished from yahoo but
 it never appeared on my system here.
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Re: [expert] Help with fetchmail?

2002-11-21 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 21 November 2002 11:49 am, you wrote:
 Something has gone wrong here.  I have tried to setup fetchmail to work
 with my local postfix and procmail.  I have fetchmail setup to query my
 yahoo pop mail server every 2 minutes.  It is actually downloading the mail
 from yahoo to what appears to be a blackhole on my system, however.

 In testing, I logged into the yahoo web mail interface and saw a new
 message there in my inbox.  I ran fetchmail and it vanished from yahoo but
 it never appeared on my system here.

 I am using kmail and have set it for local mail.  I have tried pointing it
 to /var/spool/mail/praedor and /var/mail/praedor with no affect.  No new
 messages ever appear.  I cannot find where fetchmail is placing the mail.

 Where might I look to find the location fetchmail is stashing messages?

 praedor

Praedor, you did say you are using procmail, right? If so, you can do (as 
user) a:

procmail -v

and lots of useful info pops up, including the last line which shows your 
system mailbox.

HTHs!

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