Problems with my mail routines

[Richard E Miles]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:26:25 +0200
Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:

> 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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> 

Thankyou Alexander. I removed the smpthost reference from the .fetchmailrc
file. It now looks like it is working.

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Richard E Miles
Federal Way Wa. USA
Registered linux user 46097