Problems with my mail routines

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Mon Jun 20 17:26:25 UTC 2005


Am Mo, den 20.06.2005 schrieb Richard E Miles um 19:05:

> I have been trying to setup my local machine to receive mail from comcast. The
> setup uses fetchmail, procmail, and sendmail. The log file
> /var/log/maillog shows:
> Jun 20 09:31:02 localhost fetchmail[3155]: starting fetchmail 6.2.5 daemon
> Jun 20 09:31:06 localhost fetchmail[3155]: 175 messages for r.godzilla at mail.comcast.net (860187 octets).
> Jun 20 09:31:06 localhost fetchmail[3155]: reading message r.godzilla at mail.comcast.net:1 of 175 (3975 octets)
> Jun 20 09:36:06 localhost fetchmail[3155]: timeout after 300 seconds waiting for listener to respond.
> Jun 20 09:36:06 localhost fetchmail[3155]: socket error while delivering to SMTP host mail.comcast.net
> Jun 20 09:36:06 localhost fetchmail[3155]: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
> Jun 20 09:36:06 localhost fetchmail[3155]: sleeping at Mon 20 Jun 2005 09:36:06 AM PDT
> Jun 20 09:37:36 localhost fetchmail[3155]: awakened at Mon 20 Jun 2005 09:37:36 AM PDT
> Jun 20 09:37:40 localhost fetchmail[3155]: 176 messages for r.godzilla at mail.comcast.net (865216 octets).
> Jun 20 09:37:40 localhost fetchmail[3155]: reading message r.godzilla at mail.comcast.net:1 of 176 (3975 octets)


> poll mail.comcast.net with proto POP3 and options no dns
>        user 'r.godzilla' with pass "password"  is 'rmiles' here keep
>        smtphost comcast.net

.oO You know what "smtphost" means as a fetchmailrc setting? Look at
"man fetchmail" - it does not do what you think it does. Or if you
really named your lokal host "comcast.net" with according DNS
resolution, you then broke more than fetchmail.

> expunge 1

> Richard E Miles

Alexander


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