advise on using fetchmail
Gerrit P. Haase
freeweb@nyckelpiga.de
Thu May 2 15:06:00 GMT 2002
Jason schrieb:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:09:44PM +0100, Mark Cooke wrote:
>> fetchmail -u mark
>>
>> results in this error all the time:
>>
>> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
>> fetchmail: can't raise the listener; falling back to
>> /usr/local/bin/procmail -d %T
> I have never seen the above error message.
I get this always when my SMTP server is not available.
My fetchmail falls back to /usr/sbin/sendmail ... then as I'm not
using procmail. It is not a real error, it is normal if you have
procmail support compiled in and no SMTP daemon is running.
Use the config settings from Jason to override the search for a
SMTP daemon on the localhost.
> I have been successful using the the following .fetchmailrc file:
> set logfile /var/log/fetchmail.log
> set invisible # suppress "Received:" line fetchmail adds
> set no bouncemail
> poll "my.server.net" # *** change as appropriate ***
> protocol pop3
> username "MyUserName" # *** change as appropriate ***
> password "MyPassword" # *** change as appropriate ***
> fetchall
> nokeep # delete successfully received
> messages
> mda "/usr/local/bin/procmail -d %T" # pass message to the local MDA
> Is your .fetchmailrc file similar to the above?
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