Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 22:34:29 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> To: "Andreas Ntaflos" <ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net> Cc: "FBSDQ" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Is fetchmail with Cox possible????? Message-ID: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOOEAPCKAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20020307234437.E94491@Deadcell.ant>
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Run a test fetchmail -v -c -c means do nothing but check isp mail account
and return count of number of email. Be sure to remove the mda stuff from
the poll statement in .fetchmailrc first. If that works the put the mda
back as mda "/user/local/sbin/sendmail" and this time use fetchmail -v -k
And no set daemon statement in .fetchmailrc. Let me know the results.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andreas Ntaflos
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 5:45 PM
To: Tom Kersten
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Is fetchmail with Cox possible?????
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:31:40PM -0800, Tom Kersten wrote:
>
> --- Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> wrote:
> > At Thu, 7 Mar 2002 it looks like Tom Kersten
> > composed:
> >
> > > set daemon 300
> > >
> > > poll smtp.west.cox.net with protocol POP3:
> > >
> > > user thomas@mydomain.com there is thomas here mda
> > > "/usr/local/bin/procmail -f - "
> > >
>
> I didn't have procmail
> installed........wow........anyway, that didn't seem
> to solve my problem. I was using sendmail before as my
> mda...which is better???? also, any other ideas? I
> just can't seem to figure this out...
>
> thomas
>
procmail by itself isn't an MDA the way sendmail or postfix or qmail are I
think. You can use procmail to filter incoming messages to different
mailboxes, that's at least what I use it for. Maybe I am wrong.
But what irritates me is the following line:
user thomas@mydomain.com there is thomas here mda
Maybe the config syntax of fetchmail has changed but I have only 3 lines in
my .fetchmailrc and sendmail configured correctly. That's all it needs to
work:
poll pop.gmx.net protocol pop3 user "4037158" password "XXXXXX"
poll pop.gmx.net protocol pop3 user "1580704" password "XXXXXX"
set daemon 900
I do not have a fully qualified domain name or anything. See earlier post
with configuration for sendmail to masquerade as mail server. That's exactly
how it has to be used to have mail downloaded and processed on a normal
workstation.
Maybe I am completely ignorant and don't know what I am talking about, but
my
setup works. And that's all we're interested in, having a working setup,
isn't it :) ?
HTH and good night
--
Andreas "ant" Ntaflos
ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net
Vienna, AUSTRIA
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