On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Emmanuel Amador wrote: > On Fri, 02 Nov 2001, vince cagud wrote: > > hey manny. > > > > yup, fetchmail automatically deletes mail from your server unless you > > give it a "-k" option. thing is, where are you running pine? on your > > local host i presume? you can verify if they were delivered to the > > Yup. The funny thing is it worked before without a hitch. > > > proper mailbox i.e. /var/spool/username by checking your > > /var/log/maillog file. otherwise, you have to configure sendmail > > properly. running fetchmail like you did should spool all those fetched > > mail messages to the inbox of the invoking user, so you can start > > checking there. my hunch is that all your "popped" messages through > > fetchmail are in your sendmail queue because it cant find the proper > > inbox to go to. you can verify this by running "mailq". as regards > > configuring sendmail, i'm not much into it. postfix kasi gamit ko lagi eh. > > So far mailq turns up nothing. I guess that means no mail for the user. But I > do see messages telling me that mail was found and downloaded. The messages > seem to get lost. > > Also, I checked the var/log/maillog file and I find I keep getting this: > > > # Nov 2 23:36:56 Maddog sendmail[2799]: problem creating SMTP socket > # Nov 2 23:37:01 Maddog sendmail[2799]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): > opendaemonsocket: cannot bind: Address already in use > # Nov 2 23:37:01 Maddog sendmail[2799]: problem creating SMTP socket > # Nov 2 23:37:01 Maddog sendmail[2799]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): > opendaemonsocket: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting >
You probably have sendmail up and running already, and you run it again. To be sure that you really restarted sendmail, you should type 'service sendmail restart' this should stop any sendmail daemons running and run it again. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
