Re: fetchmail failing in fetching mail from a pop server

2002-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 25 November 2002 5:46 pm, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote: > Alan, > the fetchmail manpage Elizabeth partly pasted in this thread > documents using the mda command forces fetchmail to > pass all mail to the application stated in the argument > of t

Re: fetchmail failing in fetching mail from a pop server

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Alan, the fetchmail manpage Elizabeth partly pasted in this thread documents using the mda command forces fetchmail to pass all mail to the application stated in the argument of the mda command - rather than forwarding to port 25. But this seems not to be the point. I've no idea why fetchmail is c

Re: fetchmail failing in fetching mail from a pop server

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Elizabeth, the suggested mda command did not work. For every of the 5 messages awaiting on the pop server I got: " About to rewrite Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rewritten version is Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: about to deliver with: /usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -f [EMAIL PROT

Re: fetchmail failing in fetching mail from a pop server

2002-11-23 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 November 2002 3:45 pm, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote: > Addionaly a helpful person had sent me his configuration, > unfortunatly he's no on the list anymore. > What he uses was a system fetchmailrc with this line: > mda "/usr/sbin/exim -oMr

Re: fetchmail failing in fetching mail from a pop server

2002-11-23 Thread Elizabeth Barham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Wilhelm Land) writes: > He explained that his configuration would override exims idea > of who the sender is and replace this with as he wrote: > "..we want fetchmail to be able to specify the sender of the > message to whatever value it derivce from the POP3 server." >

Re: fetchmail failing in fetching mail from a pop server

2002-11-23 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Elizabeth, can't say how glad I am reading your response. Yet I can't really figure out what the part of man page you  pasted precisely means. Does this doubling refer to double envelopes or double message headers? Addionaly a helpful person had sent me his configuration, unfortunatly he's no on

Re: fetchmail failing in fetching mail from a pop server

2002-11-22 Thread Elizabeth Barham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Wilhelm Land) writes: > The file below shows errors relating to unexpected message > lengths. Could it have something to do with the > missing options exim is complaining about? > > Any help is grately appreciated Probably. From fetchmail(1): -m , --mda

fetchmail failing in fetching mail from a pop server

2002-11-22 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Fetchmail reports a rather wierd looking error trying to fetch mail from my only pop account I have (mozilla does well though): To get exim running .fetcmailrc containes: mda /usr/sbin/exim. The test I ran 2 times was: rland@MINI:~$ fetchmail -k -vv >> fetch2.test fetchmail: Command not supporte