Re: dialup w/ qmail
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You mentioned setting up a .fetchmailrc. I've never managed to figure out >the syntax. What does a basic .fetchmailrc look like? See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#fetchmail -Dave
Re: dialup w/ qmail
> People should not be addressing mail directly to your server, unless > it has a sufficiently stable presence on the Internet (static IP, > DDNS, etc.). They should be sending mail to you c/o your ISP. Well that's fine. Once I get the static IP/domain I'll add that to the rcpthosts and all will be well. I was just checking to see if I could send to it from a remote host while online. Sendmail used to let me do it, but then again it'd let a person get away with murder if they wished :) > I'll guess that they say, "localhost" is not in rcpthosts. You could > just add it; alternately run fetchmail with "-S > localhost.localdomain", or add "smtphost localhost.localdomain" to > your .fetchmailrc file. Presumably, "localhost.localdomain" IS in your > rcpthosts. That's the basic idea of it. I added the -S option and it worked great. Hey it wasn't until just recently I realized that fetchmail runs through the local mail server (duh@me). BTW, I notice (as I download 1718 messages from my remote server) that the hard drive seems to run awfully hard during qmail operations. It's only for a split second (after flushing each message) but it's somewhat loud. Is that possibly because qmail writes to the drive asap instead of caching it in memory or something? I've got Maildir access currently set up, so I thought maybe the more frequent hd writes had to do with being in my /home/ directory. You mentioned setting up a .fetchmailrc. I've never managed to figure out the syntax. What does a basic .fetchmailrc look like? I'd like to set up a little cron script to dial up my ISP, make sure it connects, download all my POP mail and then hangup afterwards. Unfortunately, that'd require me learning how to write cron scripts as well. I apologize for all the lame newbie questions. Mailer daemons are not something I've dabbled with before. I've always just left my system with whatever defaults it came with and never gave it a second thought. Switching over to qmail has been a learning experience for me...one that I'm not regretting. Jason
Re: dialup w/ qmail
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, since I don't have a real domain, I can't seem to receive > anything. People should not be addressing mail directly to your server, unless it has a sufficiently stable presence on the Internet (static IP, DDNS, etc.). They should be sending mail to you c/o your ISP. > I try to send mail to the server from a remote host, and it gripes > that the address (whataver.ppp-mfc.etc..) isn't in the rcpthosts > file. Right, because you're addressing the mail to the dialup on which you're connected. Qmail only accepts mail for hosts listed in /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts. There are two solutions: 1. Add all of your ISP's dialups to rcpthosts (yuck!). 2. Get the mail-delivery-agent to connect to your machine, but address the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You'll find that quite tricky; indeed impossible in general. > I also can't seem to receive pop mail (via fetchmail) due to the > same problem. Fetchmail can do the job; you should scan your mail log and see, when running fetchmail, _exactly_ what the error message is. Paste them into your email's to this list. I'll guess that they say, "localhost" is not in rcpthosts. You could just add it; alternately run fetchmail with "-S localhost.localdomain", or add "smtphost localhost.localdomain" to your .fetchmailrc file. Presumably, "localhost.localdomain" IS in your rcpthosts. Good luck, -Len. -- Corrupt: In politics, holding an office of trust or profit. -- Ambrose Bierce
dialup w/ qmail
Greetings all, I just got finished (mostly) setting up qmail on a server I'm preparing to put on the net. Until I get my FQDN I'm using a standard ppp connection and just have localhost.localdomain in all my control files. This allows me to send mail to others on the server, as well as send mail to other hosts when I connect it w/ ppp. However, since I don't have a real domain, I can't seem to receive anything. I try to send mail to the server from a remote host, and it gripes that the address (whataver.ppp-mfc.etc..) isn't in the rcpthosts file. I also can't seem to receive pop mail (via fetchmail) due to the same problem. Once I get the domain set up, the first problem should go away. However, I'm not too sure about the second. Any Ideas? Thanks, Jason
