Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 21:24:21 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> To: FreeBSD_Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fetchmail piping to sendmail, DNS probs causing POP server timeout Message-ID: <D7DC91CE-2D1B-11D8-921E-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <200312122007.13092.derrick@norris-net.com> References: <200312122007.13092.derrick@norris-net.com>
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On Dec 12, 2003, at 7:07 PM, Derrick Norris wrote: > Like many of us, I get a *lot* of spam coming into my ISP-assigned > email address. Since I originally installed this system (at release > 4.2) I have used fetchmail piping through to sendmail to fetch from 3 > POP accounts. I don't run DNS on my box and use my ISP's DNS servers > for resolution. Is there some reason you pipe thru sendmail? Bypass sendmail with something like this as the first line of your ~/.fetchmailrc file: defaults proto pop3 fetchall mda "/usr/local/bin/procmail -d dkelly" Everybody uses procmail, right? :-) Make sure you have something like this at the start of your ~/.procmailrc file: MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail #you'd better make sure it exists DEFAULT=/var/mail/$LOGNAME -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@interactplus.com ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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