From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 7 10:32:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from george.he.net (george.he.net [216.218.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C49FC37B402 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 10:32:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from corten5 (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by george.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id KAA31771; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 10:32:06 -0800 Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 10:37:02 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: bill@corten5 To: Norbert Koch Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: System-ID: FreeBSD 4.2-REALEASE #0: i386 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 7 Jan 2001 it looks like Norbert Koch composed: nk->Fetchmail tries to connect to sendmail on your local box to deliver the nk->mail. It looks like you don't have a sendmail daemon running. nk-> ..... Or to bypass sendmail for lets say a simple single user desktop machine you can use the following ~/.fetchmailrc file (start of simple ~./fetchmailrc file) set daemon 300 poll pop3.hurricane.com with protocol POP3: user william there with password ******** is bill here mda "/usr/local/bin/procmail -f -" (put your actual mail settings and your real password where the **** is at) That setup will have your fetchmail daemon check mail every 300 seconds and fetch your mail at you account and put it into where your "echo $MAIL" is at. Edit your .pinerc file to make sure the results of `echo $MAIL" line up with your incoming mail folder in pine's (.pinerc) file in your home directory. You'll probably be prompted to run the following command as root also from the Fetchmail warning. chmod 1777 /var/mail You may now disable Sendmail if you wish. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 "UNIX, A Way of Life." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message