Resolved ??: fetchmail +SMTP error

["David J. Jackson" <cjamblues@qwest.net>]

Hugo --
Lot of good information. I review it later.
Part of my problem was I had an alias in /etc/mail/aliases point my 
login name to my qwest.net
account: i.e. davej:cjamblues@qwest.net. Having removed that fetchmail 
is working ok.

Thanks again,
David


Hugo Villeneuve wrote:

> fetchmail by default will try to deliver the message to the To: and
> Cc: recipients by looking at username part if I remember correctly.
> This means, if your POP username is not the same as your login name,
> message are lost (or sent to the postmaster fetchmail keyword).
> 
> That's why I use the "user popusername is loginname" syntax, that
> way all messages (spam included) are delivered to me (loginname).
> 
> For your sendmail problem, you don't need to run sendmail in daemon
> mode (-bd) if you don't want to. You can use the fetchmail "mda"
> keyword to send directly to a program instead of localhost:smtp.
> 
> This is what I use for my POP accounts:
> 
> server pop.domain.com proto POP3 user pop_username is login_name \
> 	password XXXXXXXX mimedecode pass8bits fetchall \
> 	mda "/usr/local/bin/procmail -Y -f %F"
> 
> but mda could be this if you don't already use procmail for filtering:
> 
> 	mda "/usr/libexec/mail.local -L -f %F %T"
> 
> or if you really want to use sendmail:
> 
> 	mda "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -i -f %F %T"
> 
> Only sendmail is suid root, which mean only sendmail could be used
> to deliver to somebody else than the user under which fetchmail runs.
> 
> Read the man page for fetchmail.
> 
> Read the disclaimer for %F %T.
> 
> Check every thing I said.
> 
> 
> Hugo Villeneuve
> 
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 01:41:16PM -0700, David J. Jackson wrote:
> 
>> Brad ---
>> 
>> Thanks for your reply.
>> I remembered seeing that in rc.conf , after reading Cam's replay. After 
>> making that change,
>> fetchmail did retrieve my email, but I don't no where ... mail(x) 
>> doesn't retrieve it form the /var/mail
>> or /var/spool/mqueue? Fetchmail seems to being sending it to /dev/null 
>> (which will save on hd space :) ) .
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> 
>> Brad wrote:
>> 
>>>> my email. Any suggestions ?
>>>> 
>>>> David Jackson
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> sunwarship : davej % fetchmail mail.dnvr.qwest.net -u cjamblues
>>>> Enter password for cjamblues@mail.dnvr.qwest.net: <mailto:cjamblues@mail.dnvr.qwest.net:>
>>>> fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.dnvr.qwest.net
>>>> 
>>>> 34 messages for cjamblues at pop.dnvr.uswest.net (190338 octets).
>>>> reading message 1 of 34 (2661 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
>>>> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.dnvr.qwest.net
>>>> fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
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