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  From: Alex Wilkisnon <lex@senet.com.au>
  To  : Andrew Speer <andrew.speer@isolutions.com.au>
  Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 05:46:07 +0930

Re: fetchmail

Yep. U and Darryl were right. Sendmail disabled. I remember now
disabling it a while ago bec it timed out at boot.

All working fine. 

Now I will set up a cron job to check it every 10 mins :-)

Cheers.

 - Alex 





Andrew Speer wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alex Wilkisnon <lex@senet.com.au>
> To: <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 10:16 AM
> Subject: fetchmail
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a slight problem with the config of fetchmail
> >
> > 1. I have created .fetchmail files in both /root and /lex.
> >    This is the contents of one the files:
> >
> >    [lex@pluto ~]$ more .fetchmailrc
> >    poll mail.senet.com.au
> >    protocol pop3
> >    localdomains pluto
> >    user lex with password ***** [u don't need to know that :)]
> >
> 
> Here is my fetchmail config for my senet mail, but the fetchmail config is
> probably not the issue - it sounds like a local sendmail.
> 
> # senet fetchmail config data
> #
> poll senet
> via mail.senet.com.au
> protocol pop3
> username aspeer
> to andrew.speer@isolutions.com.au
> password ********
> smtphost gherkin.isolutions.com.au
> nokeep
> 
> > 2. I have edited /etc/sendmail.cw ie
> >    [lex@pluto ~]$ more /etc/sendmail.cw
> >    # sendmail.cw - include all aliases for your machine here.
> >
> >    pluto 10.0.0.1
> >
> >
> > However, when I do a fetchmail I get this error:
> >
> > ================================================
> >
> > [lex@pluto ~]$ !f
> > fetchmail
> > 7 messages for lex at mail.senet.com.au (19409 octets).
> > reading message 1 of 7 (2109 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to
> > localhost failed
> > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.senet.com.au
> > fetchmail: Query status=10
> > [lex@pluto ~]$
> >
> > ===============================================================
> >
> 
> As Daryl Tester suggested, fix the issues in your sendmail.cw file, then try
> "telnet localhost 25" to see if sendmail is accepting connections (I am
> assuming that "pluto" == "localhost") here.
> 
> If you get a "connection refused" message, sendmail is not running on
> localhost. Try starting it with /path/to/sendmail -bd -q1h (where /path/to
> is the appropriate sendmail path). If telnet localhost *still* fails after
> that, have a look at the sendmail log ("tail /var/log/maillog" on Redhat) to
> see if that has any clues.
> 
> If things still not working properly, try running fetchmail with the -v
> option (verbose) and post back the results here, with perhaps a bit more
> information about where you think the mail should be going (localhost, or
> remote host ?)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andrew Speer

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