From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 1 12:58:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from khi.comsats.net.pk (khi.comsats.net.pk [210.56.4.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9982D37B417 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 12:58:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from company.mail (ppp7-173khi.comsats.net.pk [210.56.7.173] (may be forged)) by khi.comsats.net.pk (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id fB1Kv7517054 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 01:57:08 +0500 (PKT) Received: from ahsanalikh [192.168.0.1] by company.mail [192.168.0.1] with SMTP (MDaemon.PRO.v4.0.5.T) for ; Sun, 02 Dec 2001 01:57:35 +0500 Message-ID: <007f01c17aaa$cd23a9a0$0100a8c0@ahsanalikh> From: "Ahsan Ali" To: "Russell A. Khurshudian" , References: <000001c17a99$39f3d2b0$0200a8c0@networld> <20011201131913.B493@twincat.vladsempire.net> <000001c17aa5$b7e4c420$0200a8c0@networld> Subject: Re: Problem with fetchmail (not receiving mail properly) Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 01:57:34 +0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 X-MDRemoteIP: 192.168.0.1 X-Return-Path: ahsan@khi.comsats.net.pk X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG check if sendmail is allowed relaying from the localhost and if you've setup sendmail to accept mail for your domain. and then make sure sendmail is running :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell A. Khurshudian" To: "Josh Paetzel" Cc: "Freebsd-Questions" Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 12:25 AM Subject: Re: Problem with fetchmail (not receiving mail properly) > Enter password for user@pop.host.com: > 1 message for user at mailhost.host.com (788 octets). > reading message 1 of 1 (788 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost > failed > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.host.com > fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) > 1 message for user at mailhost.host.com (788 octets). > reading message 1 of 1 (788 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost > failed > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.host.com > fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Josh Paetzel" > To: "Russell A. Khurshudian" > Cc: "Freebsd-Questions" > Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 8:19 AM > Subject: Re: Problem with fetchmail (not receiving mail properly) > > > > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 01:14:35PM -0500, Russell A. Khurshudian wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > Try this: > > poll pop.host.com protocol POP3 username "pop username" password "pop > > password" user "pop username" is "local username" here; > > > > Josh > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message