Here are some preliminary results on fetchmail.
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When I originally ran netsat -l, I got:
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:smtp *:* LISTEN
But now for some reason it has changed to:
tcp 0 0 hartford-hwp.com:smtp *:* LISTEN
Whatever the reason for the change, I gather this means something is
listing on the smtp port (25).
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Setting up /etc/mail/access. I have:
localhost.localdomain RELAY
localhost RELAY
127.0.0.1 RELAY You suggest inserting
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I also checked /etc/mail/local-host-names. It is empty by default.
You suggest entering "mailserver.mydomain.com", but since my machine
has neither a static IP address nor hame, I was not sure what to do. I
instead just put in my hostname (hartford-hwp.com), figuring it would
do no harm.
# local-host-names - include all aliases for your machine here.
localhost
localhost.localdomain
hartford-hwp.com
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Next, I ran netstat -lp
# netstat -lp
tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 856/sendmail: accep
Port 25 accepts messages from sendmail?
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I started a telnet session, but didn't log in. Will do that, too, if
useful.
# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to hartford-hwp.com (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 hartford-hwp.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.5/8.12.5; Tue, 10 Dec 2002
13:12:00 -0500
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I didn't know what might be useful from /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, but as
I waited thinking about that, I saw that my fetchmail -k command
actually carried through. It took about 20 seconds to start the first
download. The next few messages took about 10 seconds each. Then a
batch of about 8 downloaded normally (2-3 seconds for the batch), then
slow again. Then fast again. The pattern was consistent for additional
tries.
The first messages was an undeliverable notive from when I tried to
send myself a test message almost a week ago:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Deferred: hartford-hwp.com.: Network is unreachable
After five days, it was deleted from queue. The batch of test messages
I sent myself (also 127.0.0.1, also localhost.localdomain) fell into a
black hole.
I don't know where to look for a fechmail log, but I ran fetchmail -v
-v > /opt/tmp/-fetchmail.log. Because it was just one new message that
(successfully) downloaded, I'll here venture to paste the entire log:
Oops. Left it on the wrong HD. Will have to retrieve it next time I
boot the disk. But the message did not wave any red flags (but I may
well not recognize one even if I saw it).
Haines
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