On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 21:19:57 MST Skippi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Howdy all. Here is the deal. I am currently doing email in Linux using
> Spruce & that is working just fine. I want to migrate to Pygmy. Here is
> the rub. Pygmy needs an external program to fetch mail. So I have been
> trying to set up fetchmail, but it's not syncronizeing with the servers
> where my accounts are at. It's connecting, it's seeing mail is there, but
> can not pull it in. I've been to the fetchmail homepage & check the FAQ &
> How-To posted there, but they are not helping -- or if the answer is there
> I'm not finding it.
Understanding what is supposed to happen is key here...
Spruce can fetch mail directly from your mail host (end-point for your mail before
reader gets it). Now, when you use fetchmail, you are using it to move your mail to a
new "end-point"; normally used to bridge the gap between Internet visible mailhost and
local non-Internet-visible mailhost.
Once fetchmail has moved the mail to your local host, you could access it with spruce
by pointing it to your local mailer (sendmail/postfix).
The gotcha here is that you do not appear to have a local mailer setup to received the
mail from fetchmail... Try "telnet localhost 25"... betcha it doesn't connect...
The fetchmail loggin could be more specific; but...
POP tries and fails to deliver locally:
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 12064 octets
> reading message 1 of 1 (12064 octets)
> fetchmail: timeout after 30 seconds waiting for listener to respond.
> fetchmail: Query status=7 (ERROR)
Ditto for IMAP:
> fetchmail: IMAP< * 1 FETCH (RFC822.HEADER {856}
> reading message 1 of 1 (856 header octets)
> fetchmail: timeout after 30 seconds waiting for listener to respond.
Since you didn't specify a "proto" on lamar, it retries with POP:
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 12229 octets
> reading message 1 of 1 (12229 octets)
> fetchmail: timeout after 30 seconds waiting for listener to respond.
> fetchmail: Query status=7 (ERROR)
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 7
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Any suggestions, clues or ideas?
Setup a local mailer... I prefer postfix and you can see my configs (including trials
and tribulations) at http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix
Just be aware that my mailer is an Internet-visible endpoint, so I don't need or use
fetchmail...
> Can anyone suggest another program which Pygmy can use to retrieve mail?
Yep... the one you "skipped"... :^) Sorry, couldn't resist... still waking up...
LOL
> Thanks much for any help.
> Skippi
Pierre
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