Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 20:11:45 -0500 From: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: "Scott R." <reverend@sfmidimafia.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: annoying fetchmail issue Message-ID: <20030118011145.GA9885@scottro11.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <3E28A0A7.6000400@sfmidimafia.com> References: <3E28A0A7.6000400@sfmidimafia.com>
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--Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 04:32:39PM -0800, Scott R. wrote: > [please cc: me in replies as I am not currently subscribed to this list.= =20 > Thank you.] >=20 > I get the following error in my maillog: >=20 > fetchmail[54779]: SMTP connect to localhost failed > fetchmail[54779]: SMTP transaction error while fetching from xxx.xxx.xxx > fetchmail[54779]: Query status=3D10 (SMTP) >=20 > I've been poring over the manpages and googling like crazy and I haven't= =20 > found anything to tell me what I'm doing wrong. This is incredibly=20 > frustrating and I would appreciate any enlightenment you have to offer. I used to have a web page explaining how to use fetchmail with mutt, but=20 changed it to use getmail. Getmail seems to be preferred by people more=20 knowledgeable than myself, and I've found that it seems to work better. So, I'll send you to the page anyway, in case you feel like making the chan= ge. http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/mutt.html However, to answer your immediate questions--it'll work despite the error= =20 messages but you have to add to your .fetchmailrc mda "/usr/local/bin/procmail -d %T"=20 I've found you usually have to add that to each address which is being=20 checked. That is if you have john@isp.com and john@isp1.com each fetchmail entry should have the mda entry afterwards. Also, you might also need a .forward file in your home directory. That will just say (including the double quotes) "|/usr/local/bin/procmail" With Fetchmail, you will get those errors, though it will deliver the mail, with Getmail you won't. =20 HTH --=20 Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: This is just too much. I mean, yesterday's my life like,=20 uh oh, pop quiz. Today, it's rain of toads.=20 --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+KKnR+lTVdes0Z9YRAnBsAKCIH47wGklYhc0CWnXl9QtsXQkAGQCggTrS GLzrkwCqjJIF/SaSBB1q2T0= =P+nU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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