Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:14:35 -0500 From: "Russell A. Khurshudian" <russell_k@acedsl.com> To: "Freebsd-Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Problem with fetchmail (not receiving mail properly) Message-ID: <000001c17a99$39f3d2b0$0200a8c0@networld>
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When i use fetchmail to get the mail from my ISPs mail server it says that it receives the mail and flushes it. When i check /var/mail/user there is no mail. Contents of my .fetchmailrc poll pop.host.com protocol POP3 username username is "login name" password mypass smtpname username@host.com smtphost smtp.host.com When i tried sending a test message from my yahoo account to username@host.com i got the following output when running fetchmail and checking for mail with the 'mail' command: fetchmail: 5.8.17 querying pop.host.com (protocol POP3) at Tue Dec 4 04:31:06 2001 fetchmail: POP3< +OK koza Cyrus POP3 v1.5.19 server ready fetchmail: POP3> USER username fetchmail: POP3< +OK Name is a valid mailbox fetchmail: POP3> PASS * fetchmail: POP3< +OK Maildrop locked and ready fetchmail: POP3> STAT fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 788 fetchmail: POP3> LAST fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0 1 message for username at mailhost.host.com (788 octets). fetchmail: POP3> LIST fetchmail: POP3< +OK scan listing follows fetchmail: POP3< 1 788 fetchmail: POP3< . fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999 fetchmail: POP3< +OK Message follows reading message 1 of 1 (788 octets) fetchmail: SMTP< 220 koza.host.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.10.1/8.9.3; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:12:58 -0500 (EST) fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost fetchmail: SMTP< 250-koza.host.com Hello fathom.myhost.com [My IP address], pleased to meet you fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES fetchmail: SMTP< 250-EXPN fetchmail: SMTP< 250-VERB fetchmail: SMTP< 250-8BITMIME fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE 16000000 fetchmail: SMTP< 250-DSN fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ONEX fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ETRN fetchmail: SMTP< 250-XUSR fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<user@yahoo.com> SIZE=788 fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.0 <user@yahoo.com>... Sender ok fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<username@host.com> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.5 <username@host.com>... Recipient ok fetchmail: SMTP> DATA fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself #**********fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM) fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 fB1ICwc22543 Message accepted for delivery flushed fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1 fetchmail: POP3< +OK message deleted fetchmail: POP3> QUIT fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT fetchmail: SMTP< 221 2.0.0 koza.host.com closing connection fetchmail: normal termination, status 0 [hesiod |04:31am| fathom (~)] $ mail No mail for username Why might i not be recieving the mail properly, and if i am, why isn't it placed in /var/mail/user? Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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