Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 00:35:39 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> To: "Tom Kersten" <tomkersten98@yahoo.com> Cc: "FBSDQ" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Is fetchmail with Cox possible????? Message-ID: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOKEBCCKAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20020308043546.67378.qmail@web10005.mail.yahoo.com>
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Tom I think you have problem with your ISP mail box. The following is what
it is to look like.
Script started on Fri Mar 8 00:17:08 2002
# /usr/home/barbish> /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -v -c
fetchmail: 5.9.6 querying mail.manbay.com (protocol POP3) at Fri Mar 8
00:18:12 2002: poll started
fetchmail: POP3< +OK mail.manbay.com POP3 server (Post.Office v3.5.3 release
223 with ZPOP version 1.0 ID# 0-52377U2500L250S0V35) ready Fri, 8 Mar 2002
00:22:35 -0500
fetchmail: POP3> USER barbish
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Password required for barbish
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Maildrop has 1 messages (6287 octets)
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 6287
fetchmail: POP3> LAST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0
1 message for barbish at mail.manbay.com (6287 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK mail.manbay.com POP3 server closing connection
fetchmail: 5.9.6 querying mail.manbay.com (protocol POP3) at Fri Mar 8
00:18:16 2002: poll completed
fetchmail: normal termination, status 0
# / >cd /root
# /root >more .fetchmailrc
set postmaster "barbish"
#set daemon 300
set no bouncemail
#set logfile /var/log/fetchmail.log
poll mail.manbay.com proto pop3
user "barbish" pass "xxxxxx"
# mda /usr/local/sbin/postfix
You get this doing the same thing
thomas@www:/home/thomas> fetchmail -v -c
Enter password for
thomas@mydomain.com@smtp.west.cox.net:
fetchmail: 5.9.6 querying smtp.west.cox.net (protocol
POP3) at Thu Mar 7 21:17:52 2002: poll started
fetchmail: 5.9.6 querying smtp.west.cox.net (protocol
POP3) at Thu Mar 7 21:19:07 2002: poll completed
fetchmail: normal termination, status 2
The status 2 is not the count of email in your ISP mail account,
I think it is a return code. And not a good one.
2 An error was encountered when attempting to open a socket to retrieve
mail. If you don't know what a socket is, don't worry about it -- just treat
this as an 'unrecoverable error'. This error can also be because a protocol
fetchmail wants to use is not listed in /etc/services.
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-man.html#30
You should check out the fetchmail manual.
Now you are making headway.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Tom Kersten
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:36 PM
To: Joe & Fhe Barbish; Andreas Ntaflos; bill@wiliweld.com
Cc: FBSDQ
Subject: RE: Is fetchmail with Cox possible?????
--- Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com> wrote:
> Run a test fetchmail -v -c -c means do nothing
> but check isp mail account
> and return count of number of email. Be sure to
> remove the mda stuff from
> the poll statement in .fetchmailrc first. If that
> works the put the mda
> back as mda "/user/local/sbin/sendmail" and this
> time use fetchmail -v -k
> And no set daemon statement in .fetchmailrc. Let me
> know the results.
>
>
Everyone who is helping,
OK...we are getting somewhere...just a little comment
will fix this one i think....here is my *new*
~/.fetchmailrc file:
******************start
#set daemon 300
poll smtp.west.cox.net with protocol POP3:
user thomas@whitespur.com there is thomas here
#mda "/usr/local/bin/procmail -f - "
******************finish
Now, this is what happens when I run fetchmail -v -c:
*******start
And this is what happens when I run fetchmail -a
********start
thomas@www:/home/thomas> fetchmail -v -c
Enter password for
thomas@mydomain.com@smtp.west.cox.net:
fetchmail: 5.9.6 querying smtp.west.cox.net (protocol
POP3) at Thu Mar 7 21:17:52 2002: poll started
fetchmail: 5.9.6 querying smtp.west.cox.net (protocol
POP3) at Thu Mar 7 21:19:07 2002: poll completed
fetchmail: normal termination, status 2
*****finish
Whohooo!! It looks (to me) like it is returning 2
messages, which is the number of messages in my
mailbox. But...when I type "mail" I get "no mail for
thomas".....I don't know, but I am assuming this is
because nothing is delivering it to me (ie-sendmail,
procmail, etc)...but this is new territory for me.
Now, I am going to change back to using "sendmail"
because it says that procmail is not always reliable
in the man page...I need all the reliability I can
get...so here is my *new new* ~/.fetchmailrc file....
*************start********
#set daemon 300
poll smtp.west.cox.net with protocol POP3:
user thomas@whitespur.com there is thomas here
mda "/usr/sbin/sendmail"
***********finish**********
NOTE-I have tried the mda line w/ & w/o the quotes
around the path...same results
Now I try this....
********start********
thomas@www:/home/thomas> fetchmail -v -a --all
Enter password for
thomas@mydomain.com@smtp.west.cox.net:
fetchmail: 5.9.6 querying smtp.west.cox.net (protocol
POP3) at Thu Mar 7 21:32:04 2002: poll started
fetchmail: 5.9.6 querying smtp.west.cox.net (protocol
POP3) at Thu Mar 7 21:33:19 2002: poll completed
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: normal termination, status 2
********finish*******
It appears to be successful (to me), but when I type
"mail" again....still "no mail for thomas"---where is
it going???? How do I deliver it??? This has to be the
last leg? Or maybe we have solve nothing....let me
know........
Thomas
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On
> Behalf Of Andreas Ntaflos
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 5:45 PM
> To: Tom Kersten
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Is fetchmail with Cox possible?????
>
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:31:40PM -0800, Tom
> Kersten wrote:
> >
> > --- Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> wrote:
> > > At Thu, 7 Mar 2002 it looks like Tom Kersten
> > > composed:
> > >
> > > > 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 - "
> > > >
> >
> > I didn't have procmail
> > installed........wow........anyway, that didn't
> seem
> > to solve my problem. I was using sendmail before
> as my
> > mda...which is better???? also, any other ideas? I
> > just can't seem to figure this out...
> >
> > thomas
> >
**************deleted for redundancy avoidance*******
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