Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1998-01-15 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote: >> > Yup, same here. It takes a *very long* time for the mail to get from >> > fetchmail >> > to my mailbox. Has anyone tried exim package and what (if any) downsides >> > are to >> > use the exim instead of the smail package? >> >> I use the smail v

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1998-01-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote: > Yup, same here. It takes a *very long* time for the mail to get from fetchmail > to my mailbox. Has anyone tried exim package and what (if any) downsides are > to > use the exim instead of the smail package? I use the smail version that came with the D

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1998-01-14 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Marcus Brinkmann; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 11:59:20PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > > > Ok. I've narrowed it down -- smail doesn't like mail addressed to > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- if I tell fetchmail to use procmail as the delivery > > (how can you do this

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1998-01-14 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > (how can you do this - using procmail in fetchmailrc ?) try mda /usr/bin/procmail in ~/.fetchmailrc I'm not really an smail hacker, I just found that adding "hostnames=rivendell.rdny.udel.edu:localhost" to /etc/smail/config was the solution I n

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1998-01-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 11:59:20PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > > > Xdefer: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> reason: (ERR175) host retry file locked > > And if I do "rm /var/spool/smail/retry/smtp/localhost", I get these in > > the msglogs. > > Xdefer: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > Shouldn't smailconfig automatically assume that > hostname=localhost:foo:foo.domain.com > should be added in /etc/smail/config? The only way to do this currently > is to answer the "Is this system known by any other names?" question with > "Yes; loca

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1997-12-29 Thread Will Lowe
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > Ok. I've narrowed it down -- smail doesn't like mail addressed to > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- if I tell fetchmail to use procmail as the delivery > > agent, everything is fine, but otherwise sendmail seems to send itself > > into infinite loops

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1997-12-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > Ok. I've narrowed it down -- smail doesn't like mail addressed to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- if I tell fetchmail to use procmail as the delivery > agent, everything is fine, but otherwise sendmail seems to send itself > into infinite loops trying to deliver

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1997-12-28 Thread Will Lowe
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > Xdefer: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> reason: (ERR175) host retry file locked > And if I do "rm /var/spool/smail/retry/smtp/localhost", I get these in > the msglogs. > Xdefer: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> reason: (ERR148) transport smtp: connect: > Connection refused O

smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1997-12-28 Thread Will Lowe
usually I have an ethernet link at school, and I use fetchmail to fetch mail from our pop server. At the moment, I'm at home, and I have ppp running fine (also did "ifconfig eth0 down" to get rid of the ethernet link). But now smail is giving me all sorts of problems -- fetchmail is fetching m