Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 05:59:28 -0600 From: "Duke Normandin" <dnormandin@freewwweb.com> To: "Erik Trulsson" <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help! ppp/fetchmail/sendmail Message-ID: <004e01bfbff7$5c1a0660$b1dba7d1@dnormandinfreewwweb.com>
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On Tuesday, May 16, 2000 1:04 PM Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se> wrote: >On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 09:15:45PM -0600, Duke Normandin wrote: >> help......! I've got one hell of a hair-ball mess! >> > >I guess that one of two things happened: >1) sendmail wasn't configured to accept mail for your machine so it bounced > it back to your ISP. >2) sendmail was configured to send all mail via your ISP so it did that. > Yep..... figured as much! Now I've got to fix it..... >> On top of that, I had run fetchmail -v --keep, so when I fetched my >> mail with Outlook Express, I had triplicates of everything. >> >> Well the upside is that ppp is working -- sort of. It tries to connect even >> before I've logged on (in?). Could this be due to the start_if.tun0 script >> that I'm using as per a suggestion in one of the ppp documents that >> I've recently read? > >It is probably sendmail that is the cause of this. IIRC sendmail tries to >do DNS lookups at regular intervals (including when it is started) and >if the DNS server you use is at your ISP (which is often the case) >it will cause ppp to try to connect. OK.... I'll try to find documentation on sendmail's DNS lookups. >> How do I get fetchmail to drop the 2 POP3 accounts to user:dnormandin >Just run fetchmail as that user. It works for me at least. I just discovered (learning all about "the Unix way") that I need to install a MDA -- procmail was suggested in the tutorial I was reading today. Is this what you use as well? If I understand this correctly, fetchmail only "fetches" -- an MDA has to "fill the mailboxes" -- sendmail only delivers to my maildrops, i.e. ISPs. Am I close? >> on my system? Anybody have ideas on how I hosed sendmail.cf - or >> what I didn't do. BTW, at the end of the sendmail manpages, they >> suggest reading, "SENDMAIL Configuration and Settup" or something >> like that. No joy -- can't find the bloody thing. Any ideas where it is? >> As well, my `hostname` is odie.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca. Is this screwing >> things up with regards to fetchmail/sendmail? >If that hostname is correct (meaning the domain actually exists etc) there >shouldn't be any problems. > >I know what I did to get a very similar setup to work. >I looked at the sendmail configuration stuff, said "Uh?", realised I didn't >really want to learn all the details of sendmail, so I ignored sendmail >and installed qmail instead. It is a bit easier to configure. > >I am fairly certain that most (all?) of your problems are connected with >sendmail, or rather your configuration of it. >Not knowing much about sendmail I am afraid I can't help you to get it >working but my advice would be to look at using some other MTA instead of >sendmail since they are probably easier to configure. (Eg. qmail or postfix) > >I think that sendmail is primarily meant to be used on machines that are >connected all the time and with a working DNS setup. >It can probably be made to work in your case too, but don't ask *me* how :-) Thanks for the `qmail` recommendation! It's very tempting, but I'm inclined to learn sendmail, so that I can dive deeper in learning "the Unix way". It's got to be do-able! *After* I get sendmail/fetchmail/procmail all working properly, then I'll smile and kick sendmail in the ass, and replace it with qmail ;^) If I go the easy route now I'll never learn a thing -- or maybe I'm just a sucker for punishment? thanks.......duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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