From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 1 10:55:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from koza.acecape.com (koza2.acecape.com [66.9.36.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB65F37B405 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 10:55:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from networld (fathom.diluvian.net [66.114.64.69]) by koza.acecape.com (8.10.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id fB1IstK27139 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:54:55 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <000001c17a99$39f3d2b0$0200a8c0@networld> From: "Russell A. Khurshudian" To: "Freebsd-Questions" Subject: Problem with fetchmail (not receiving mail properly) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:14:35 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When i use fetchmail to get the mail from my ISPs mail server it says that it receives the mail and flushes it. When i check /var/mail/user there is no mail. Contents of my .fetchmailrc poll pop.host.com protocol POP3 username username is "login name" password mypass smtpname username@host.com smtphost smtp.host.com When i tried sending a test message from my yahoo account to username@host.com i got the following output when running fetchmail and checking for mail with the 'mail' command: fetchmail: 5.8.17 querying pop.host.com (protocol POP3) at Tue Dec 4 04:31:06 2001 fetchmail: POP3< +OK koza Cyrus POP3 v1.5.19 server ready fetchmail: POP3> USER username fetchmail: POP3< +OK Name is a valid mailbox fetchmail: POP3> PASS * fetchmail: POP3< +OK Maildrop locked and ready fetchmail: POP3> STAT fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 788 fetchmail: POP3> LAST fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0 1 message for username at mailhost.host.com (788 octets). fetchmail: POP3> LIST fetchmail: POP3< +OK scan listing follows fetchmail: POP3< 1 788 fetchmail: POP3< . fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999 fetchmail: POP3< +OK Message follows reading message 1 of 1 (788 octets) fetchmail: SMTP< 220 koza.host.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.10.1/8.9.3; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:12:58 -0500 (EST) fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost fetchmail: SMTP< 250-koza.host.com Hello fathom.myhost.com [My IP address], pleased to meet you fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES fetchmail: SMTP< 250-EXPN fetchmail: SMTP< 250-VERB fetchmail: SMTP< 250-8BITMIME fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE 16000000 fetchmail: SMTP< 250-DSN fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ONEX fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ETRN fetchmail: SMTP< 250-XUSR fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM: SIZE=788 fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.0 ... Sender ok fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO: fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.5 ... Recipient ok fetchmail: SMTP> DATA fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself #**********fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM) fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 fB1ICwc22543 Message accepted for delivery flushed fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1 fetchmail: POP3< +OK message deleted fetchmail: POP3> QUIT fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT fetchmail: SMTP< 221 2.0.0 koza.host.com closing connection fetchmail: normal termination, status 0 [hesiod |04:31am| fathom (~)] $ mail No mail for username Why might i not be recieving the mail properly, and if i am, why isn't it placed in /var/mail/user? Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message