Alex S wrote:
>
> hi
> thanks i am alot closer i think?
> i can now run fetchmail but i get the following...
> any ideas.. am i ment to be running anything else sendmail for egsample
>
> [salmona@vila /ghoti]$ fetchmail
> 37 messages for alex060 at 203.164.2.52 (74890 octets).
> reading message 1 of 37 (1936 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from 203.164.2.52
> fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
> [salmona@vila /ghoti]$
You have fetchmail configured to deliver mail to you local SMTP daemon
(usually sendmail) but is seems tha you don't have sendmail running.
You basically have two options:
1) run sendmail
2) use procmail to deliver mail which means the mail will end up
in your local mbox instead of /var/spool/mail. Have a look at
the fetchmail man page for this option.
Unfortunately neither of these programs are easy to set up.
> BTW is this right..
> u can either run a prog kmail eg and get mail straight from a pop host..
Yep, that will work.
> or
> u can run fetchmail and download the mail then put it in the local mail spool
> so plain ol "mail" can pick it up..
Yep. But you either need to run sendmail (or some other SMTP daemon) or
use procmail as the delivery agent.
> u can do somthing hidusly compilcated ;-)
It probably can be made more complicated but it doesn't need to be.
Erik
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