Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:06:44 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Kersten <tomkersten98@yahoo.com> To: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>, Andreas Ntaflos <ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is fetchmail with Cox possible????? Message-ID: <20020307200644.77405.qmail@web10005.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0203070506160.3169-200000@corten10.billschoolcraft.com>
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--- Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> wrote: > At Thu, 7 Mar 2002 it looks like Andreas Ntaflos > composed: > > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:15:50PM -0800, Tom > Kersten wrote: > > > > > > thanks for the reply...I have tried that also, > the > > > result is the same, I just happened to give you > this > > > version. Unless I have to do something other > than > > > restart fetchmail, that doesn't seem to solve > the > > > problem. Thanks for the reply...any other > ideas??? > > > > > > > It may be a sendmail issue, too. You could try > first not running fetchmail in > > daemon mode but start it normally and have it > being verbous: fetchmail -v > > This may give you some more info on what is going > on while fetchmail fetches > > mail. > > > > Hmm, why don't we bypass sendmail altogether and do > what I do to > test this: > > > (there is 3 lines total here in my ~/.fetchmailrc) > > set daemon 300 > > poll <your_POP_address> with protocol POP3: > > user <POP_account_name> there with password > <POP_password> is > <local_username> here mda "/usr/local/bin/procmail > -f - " > everyone...thanks for the replies...this is the ~/.fetchmailrc file I have am trying now.... #fetchmailrc <--not in file ************** <--not in file set daemon 300 poll smtp.west.cox.net with protocol POP3: user thomas@mydomain.com there is thomas here mda "/usr/local/bin/procmail -f - " *********** <--not in file I took out the password just to show the way it is trying to connect....here is the command i run and it's output: thomas@www:/home/thomas> fetchmail -v fetchmail: removing stale lockfile Enter password for thomas@mydomain.com@smtp.west.cox.net: thomas@www:/home/thomas> *********** as you can see...there is nothing after i enter my password....just returns my prompt. Is this supposed to be like this? either way, i have two messages in the account...1 read and 1 unread and neither of them are returned to my local mailbox. I have not changed anything in sendmail yet...it is set at the default configuration. it seems like everything is working correctly...no errors or anything....is it possible that the stuff is being sent to me and my firewall is blocking it...??? I posted it before, but here is the entry in my ipf.config.... ipf.config <---not in file ************ <---not in file pass in quick on rl0 proto tcp from any to <my.ip.add.ress> port = 80 flags S keep state pass in quick on rl0 proto tcp from any to <my.ip.add.ress> port = 22 flags S keep state pass in quick on rl0 proto smtp from any to <my.ip.add.ress> port = 25 flags S keep state pass out quick on rl0 proto tcp from any to any keep state pass out quick on rl0 proto udp from any to any keep state pass out quick on rl0 proto icmp from any to any keep state block out quick on rl0 all Assuming this is not the problem...I am stuck. It seems like I have tried enough different versions of the ~/.fetchmailrc file that one of them had to work...but nothing. Do I really need to go into the Sendmail config file??? No problem if I do, but I was under the impression that the mail should at least be delivered somewhere (like /var/mail/thomas) and then dumped to sendmail, which handled it from there. I didn't think that it would affect the delivery of my mail from the external server. Anyway, let me know if you can think of anything else that would prevent this from working correctly... thanks again for all the pointers so far, thomas > > __ > |<-----------------------|_72_Characters_Wide_|----------------------->| > Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA > 94121 /\ "UNIX, > A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com > > > divert(-1) > # > # (c) ANT > # > # Taken a generic sendmail.mc for 4.4BSD based > systems > # and modified it according to my needs > > # The best documentation for this .mc file is: > # /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README > # > > divert(0)dnl > include(/usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4) > VERSIONID(`My own sendmail config (c) by ANT') > OSTYPE(bsd4.4)dnl > DOMAIN(generic)dnl > define(`confFROM_HEADER',`gmx.net')dnl > MASQUERADE_AS(`gmx.net')dnl > FEATURE(relay_based_on_MX)dnl > FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl > dnl FEATURE(mailertable, `hash -o > /etc/mail/mailertable')dnl > FEATURE(`access_db', `hash /etc/mail/access')dnl > dnl FEATURE(blacklist_recipients)dnl > FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o > /etc/mail/virtusertable')dnl > FEATURE(`genericstable',`hash -o > /etc/mail/genericstable')dnl > dnl FEATURE(`aliases',`hash -o > /etc/mail/aliases')dnl > FEATURE(`always_add_domain')dnl > dnl Uncomment to activate Realtime Blackhole List > (recommended!) > dnl information available at > http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ > dnl FEATURE(dnsbl)dnl > dnl Many sites reject email connections from dialup > ip addresses > dnl by using the MAPS Dial-up User List (DUL). > http://maps.vix.com/dul/ > dnl Dialup users should uncomment and define this > appropriately > define(`SMART_HOST', `mail.gmx.net')dnl > FEATURE(local_lmtp)dnl > define(`LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS', > LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS`'P)dnl > dnl Uncomment the first line to change the location > of the default > dnl /etc/mail/local-host-names and comment out the > second line. > dnl define(`confCW_FILE', `-o > /etc/mail/sendmail.cw')dnl > define(`confCW_FILE', `-o > /etc/mail/local-host-names')dnl > define(`confNO_RCPT_ACTION', > `add-to-undisclosed')dnl > define(`confMAX_MIME_HEADER_LENGTH', `256/128')dnl > define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', > `authwarnings,noexpn,novrfy')dnl > MAILER(local)dnl > MAILER(smtp)dnl > MAILER(procmail)dnl > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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