Re: Fetchmail problem: connection to localhost refused
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 07:37:45PM -0700, johnrchamp...@columbus.rr.com wrote: Fetchmail, for reasons I can't figure out, has started refusing to download mail. An identitical .fetchmailrc works on a different laptop, both running uptodate sid. Here's a sample error message: 2 messages for JohnRChamplin at pop-server.columbus.rr.com (11760 octets). reading message johnrchamp...@pop-server.columbus.rr.com:1 of 2 (4264 octets )..fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed: Connection refused. fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from johnrchamp...@pop-serv er.columbus.rr.com and delivering to SMTP host localhost fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) Does it work using the -m option? -- Chris. == I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -- Stephen F Roberts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Fetchmail problem: connection to localhost refused
On (25/03/09 01:05), Chris Bannister wrote: | On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 07:37:45PM -0700, johnrchamp...@columbus.rr.com wrote: | | Fetchmail, for reasons I can't figure out, has started refusing to download mail. ... | )..fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed: Connection | ... | | Does it work using the -m option? Everything now works fine. The solution, suggested by Florian Kulzer, was to upgrade lsb* to version 3.2-22. For some strange reason, it was necessary that day to aptitude update several times to be offered version 3.2.22. A laptop updated the morning of Saturday, 21 March, got 3.2-22, and never had a problem. Two other machines updated _later_ that same afternoon were moved only from 3.2-20 to 3.2-21. After receiving Florian's suggestion, two or three repeats of aptitude update were needed in order to get the desired choice. Anyway, this puzzling fact aside, all is well at present. I've written it off to the joys of running side. -- johnrchamp...@columbus.rr.com GPG key 1024D/99421A63 2005-01-05 EE51 79E9 F244 D734 A012 1CEC 7813 9FE9 9942 1A63 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 99421A63 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Fetchmail problem: connection to localhost refused
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 19:37:45 -0700, johnrchamplin AT columbus DOT rr DOT com wrote: Fetchmail, for reasons I can't figure out, has started refusing to download mail. An identitical .fetchmailrc works on a different laptop, both running uptodate sid. Here's a sample error message: 2 messages for JohnRChamplin at pop-server.columbus.rr.com (11760 octets). reading message johnrchamp...@pop-server.columbus.rr.com:1 of 2 (4264 octets )..fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed: Connection refused. fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from johnrchamp...@pop-serv er.columbus.rr.com and delivering to SMTP host localhost fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) Check the status of port 25 on that machine, e.g.: # lsof -i :25 COMMAND PIDUSER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME exim4 2933 Debian-exim3u IPv4 736372 0t0 TCP localhost:smtp (LISTEN) # netstat -plant | grep ':25 ' tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:250.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2933/exim4 P.S. I'd be grateful if you'd copy me at johnrchamp...@yahoo.com. -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Fetchmail problem: connection to localhost refused
--- On Sun, 3/22/09, Florian Kulzer florian.kulzer+deb...@icfo.es wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 19:37:45 -0700, johnrchamplin AT columbus DOT rr DOT com wrote: Fetchmail, for reasons I can't figure out, has started refusing to download mail. ... )..fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed: Connection refused. ... fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) Check the status of port 25 on that machine, ... # lsof -i :25 # netstat -plant | grep ':25 ' tcp 0 0 Thanks, Florian. Neither command produces any return, because (as I discovered after I sent my first note), exim 4 is not running and refuses to start: root@/usr/sbin# /etc/init.d/exim4 start Starting MTA:/sbin/start-stop-daemon: Unable to chdir() to '/usr/sbin' (No such file or directory) exim4 itself is up-to-date (Installed: 4.69-9, with all exim4 files unchanged since 2008-10-05). Could the problem be with the /sbin/start-stop-daemon, a part of dpkg (1.14.25, installed 2009-02-07)? rkhunter just wrote, Please inspect this machine, because it may be infected. Evidently properties of /usr/bin/ldd have changed, and I did indeed upgrade libc6 (currently 2.9-6) just before the trouble appeared. Would you recommend reinstalling dpkg and/or libc6? Or is it time for drastic measures? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
[SOLVED] Re: Fetchmail problem: connection to localhost refused
On (22/03/09 08:18), John wrote: | --- On Sun, 3/22/09, Florian Kulzer florian.kulzer+deb...@icfo.es wrote: | | On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 19:37:45 | -0700, johnrchamplin AT columbus DOT rr DOT com wrote: | | Fetchmail, for reasons I can't figure out, has started refusing to | download mail. ... | Florian's suggestion in reponse to another email from me ( Subject: clamd and freshclam won't run) solved this problem too. (Bless him!) The solution is to upgrade lsb* to version 3.2-22. -- johnrchamp...@columbus.rr.com GPG key 1024D/99421A63 2005-01-05 EE51 79E9 F244 D734 A012 1CEC 7813 9FE9 9942 1A63 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 99421A63 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Fetchmail problem: connection to localhost refused
Fetchmail, for reasons I can't figure out, has started refusing to download mail. An identitical .fetchmailrc works on a different laptop, both running uptodate sid. Here's a sample error message: 2 messages for JohnRChamplin at pop-server.columbus.rr.com (11760 octets). reading message johnrchamp...@pop-server.columbus.rr.com:1 of 2 (4264 octets )..fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed: Connection refused. fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from johnrchamp...@pop-serv er.columbus.rr.com and delivering to SMTP host localhost fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) Got clues? P.S. I'd be grateful if you'd copy me at johnrchamp...@yahoo.com. Sent via yahoo by -- johnrchamp...@columbus.rr.com GPG key 1024D/99421A63 2005-01-05 EE51 79E9 F244 D734 A012 1CEC 7813 9FE9 9942 1A63 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 99421A63 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
fetchmail problem on etch
hai all, i have configured fetchmail on etch with postfix+dovecot(imap). it works on a particular user. say a user thanigai can retrieve mails from isp server.but another user named sathish can't retrieve mails from isp server. while user sathish give the command as fetchmailconf it says that fetchmailconf must be run under X (but the user thanigai can run this command) while user sathish give the command fetchmail it says that skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]@pop.unitedprotech.com:1 not flushed where [EMAIL PROTECTED] is username pop.unitedprotech.com is the isp name. for this how can i retrieve mails for sathish -- Thanks Regards MThanigairajan The Most Certain Way To Suceed Is To Try One More Time -- By Edison
Re: fetchmail problem on etch
thanigai rajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | hai all, | | i have configured fetchmail on etch with postfix+dovecot(imap). | it works on a particular user. | | say a user thanigai can retrieve mails from isp server.but another user | named sathish can't retrieve mails from isp server. | | while user sathish give the command as fetchmailconf it says that | fetchmailconf must be run under X (but the user thanigai can run this | command) | while user sathish give the command fetchmail it says that skipping | message [EMAIL PROTECTED]@pop.unitedprotech.com:1 not flushed | | where [EMAIL PROTECTED] is username |pop.unitedprotech.com is the isp name. | | for this how can i retrieve mails for sathish | | -- poll pop.unitedprotech.com with proto pop3 user sathish there with password satich-password is user here you have to change satich-password as your passw at your isp-mailbox and user who's logged-in on the machine. mess-mate -- You may be gone tomorrow, but that doesn't mean that you weren't here today. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail problem on etch
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:36:25AM -0400, thanigai rajan wrote: hai all, i have configured fetchmail on etch with postfix+dovecot(imap). it works on a particular user. say a user thanigai can retrieve mails from isp server.but another user named sathish can't retrieve mails from isp server. while user sathish give the command as fetchmailconf it says that fetchmailconf must be run under X (but the user thanigai can run this command) while user sathish give the command fetchmail it says that skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]@pop.unitedprotech.com:1 not flushed where [EMAIL PROTECTED] is username pop.unitedprotech.com is the isp name. for this how can i retrieve mails for sathish if it says 'not flushed', I usually do 'fetchmail -a' -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System| go to counter.li.org and | | `-http://www.debian.org/ |be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |___ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed ___| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem
Yes, I realise that...been thinking of it but when I change the cron job to run as another user, that user has to be logged in. I log on locally as rootmaybe I should log on as myself and 'su -' if I need to do anything system-ish... Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 2:37 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem But that's just it. Running fetchmail as root is a security risk. There's no reason to run it as root, since it works well from a user account. On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:49 +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Ron, Thanks for your input! Yes, that's how I have itboth accounts in one rc file. I am ok with it running as root but was wanting to stop it reporting in my mail about the warning as running as root... I shall give what you have sent me below a try and see how I fare! Kind Regards, Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 12:29 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:05 +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Yes, true... I just run the thing as root and have a .fetchmailrc file in the /root dir.. It collects mail for all users in the one file (as all 2 users are me!) Stupid cron keeps emailing me saying fetchmail said: Warning: Running as root is discouraged What if you put both accounts in the same fetchmailrc file? When I evactuated for Katrina, I kept this cox.net address, got a secondary comcast.net address from my father in Dallas, and put them both in ~/fetchmailrc, thus fetching from both accounts in the same pass. BTW, I run it out of cron: #!/bin/sh MAILTO= # m h dom mon dow command */5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/run_fetchmail.sh exit The fetchmail script can be blocked while I backup my data. $ cat /usr/local/bin/run_fetchmail.sh #!/bin/sh if [ -e /tmp/.backup.LOCK ]; then exit 0; fi /usr/bin/fetchmail -S haggis $1 Every 5 flipping minutes Am trying to find a way of turning it's user-checking off. :-) This didn't happen beforeKernels and packages are getting pickier! :-) Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: 'Clive Menzies' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 10:58 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem On (09/04/06 08:40), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: I slept on it and found the problem this morning. For some reason I have the command running as 'fetchmail fetchmail -v' took out the first 'fetchmail' and it all came to life. I haven't touched the crontab for ages so perhaps there was that bug all along that the last install was ignoring and this one picked up. Dear me, the tiredness-factor plays a big part sometimes! :-) Kind Regards, Hehe :) Glad you sorted it out. FWIW I run fetchmail as a daemon (no cron); you set the interval in /etc/fetchmailrc. For a single user, it's probably not worth doing but if you're collecting mail for multiple users, it saves configuring individual .fetchmailrc files. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA Its easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. P.J. O'Rourke, satirist -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence. John Kenneth Galbraith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact
RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 16:40 +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Yes, I realise that...been thinking of it but when I change the cron job to run as another user, that user has to be logged in. U... I log on locally as rootmaybe I should log on as myself and 'su -' if I need to do anything system-ish... Oh. Gee, I just assumed that's what everyone does. Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 2:37 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem But that's just it. Running fetchmail as root is a security risk. There's no reason to run it as root, since it works well from a user account. On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:49 +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Ron, Thanks for your input! Yes, that's how I have itboth accounts in one rc file. I am ok with it running as root but was wanting to stop it reporting in my mail about the warning as running as root... I shall give what you have sent me below a try and see how I fare! Kind Regards, Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 12:29 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:05 +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Yes, true... I just run the thing as root and have a .fetchmailrc file in the /root dir.. It collects mail for all users in the one file (as all 2 users are me!) Stupid cron keeps emailing me saying fetchmail said: Warning: Running as root is discouraged What if you put both accounts in the same fetchmailrc file? When I evactuated for Katrina, I kept this cox.net address, got a secondary comcast.net address from my father in Dallas, and put them both in ~/fetchmailrc, thus fetching from both accounts in the same pass. BTW, I run it out of cron: #!/bin/sh MAILTO= # m h dom mon dow command */5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/run_fetchmail.sh exit The fetchmail script can be blocked while I backup my data. $ cat /usr/local/bin/run_fetchmail.sh #!/bin/sh if [ -e /tmp/.backup.LOCK ]; then exit 0; fi /usr/bin/fetchmail -S haggis $1 Every 5 flipping minutes Am trying to find a way of turning it's user-checking off. :-) This didn't happen beforeKernels and packages are getting pickier! :-) Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: 'Clive Menzies' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 10:58 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem On (09/04/06 08:40), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: I slept on it and found the problem this morning. For some reason I have the command running as 'fetchmail fetchmail -v' took out the first 'fetchmail' and it all came to life. I haven't touched the crontab for ages so perhaps there was that bug all along that the last install was ignoring and this one picked up. Dear me, the tiredness-factor plays a big part sometimes! :-) Kind Regards, Hehe :) Glad you sorted it out. FWIW I run fetchmail as a daemon (no cron); you set the interval in /etc/fetchmailrc. For a single user, it's probably not worth doing but if you're collecting mail for multiple users, it saves configuring individual .fetchmailrc files. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me. Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem
On Sunday 09 April 2006 02:40, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Yes, I realise that...been thinking of it but when I change the cron job to run as another user, that user has to be logged in. I log on locally as rootmaybe I should log on as myself and 'su -' if I need to do anything system-ish... Please read fetchmails fine man page. I find its much happier running as a sleeping daemon than as a cron job that has to re-init everytime its run, and you can, on the launch line, also tell it to run as any valid unpriviledged (uid500) user. Here, it wakes up every 90 seconds and fetches from 3 accounts, then goes back to sleep. Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 2:37 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem But that's just it. Running fetchmail as root is a security risk. There's no reason to run it as root, since it works well from a user account. On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:49 +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Ron, Thanks for your input! Yes, that's how I have itboth accounts in one rc file. I am ok with it running as root but was wanting to stop it reporting in my mail about the warning as running as root... I shall give what you have sent me below a try and see how I fare! Kind Regards, Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 12:29 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:05 +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Yes, true... I just run the thing as root and have a .fetchmailrc file in the /root dir.. It collects mail for all users in the one file (as all 2 users are me!) Stupid cron keeps emailing me saying fetchmail said: Warning: Running as root is discouraged What if you put both accounts in the same fetchmailrc file? When I evactuated for Katrina, I kept this cox.net address, got a secondary comcast.net address from my father in Dallas, and put them both in ~/fetchmailrc, thus fetching from both accounts in the same pass. BTW, I run it out of cron: #!/bin/sh MAILTO= # m h dom mon dow command */5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/run_fetchmail.sh exit The fetchmail script can be blocked while I backup my data. $ cat /usr/local/bin/run_fetchmail.sh #!/bin/sh if [ -e /tmp/.backup.LOCK ]; then exit 0; fi /usr/bin/fetchmail -S haggis $1 Every 5 flipping minutes Am trying to find a way of turning it's user-checking off. :-) This didn't happen beforeKernels and packages are getting pickier! : :-) : Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: 'Clive Menzies' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 10:58 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem On (09/04/06 08:40), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: I slept on it and found the problem this morning. For some reason I have the command running as 'fetchmail fetchmail -v' took out the first 'fetchmail' and it all came to life. I haven't touched the crontab for ages so perhaps there was that bug all along that the last install was ignoring and this one picked up. Dear me, the tiredness-factor plays a big part sometimes! :-) Kind Regards, Hehe :) Glad you sorted it out. FWIW I run fetchmail as a daemon (no cron); you set the interval in /etc/fetchmailrc. For a single user, it's probably not worth doing but if you're collecting mail for multiple users, it saves configuring individual .fetchmailrc files. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA Its easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. P.J. O'Rourke, satirist -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA One of the little-celebrated powers
Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem
On Sunday 09 April 2006 02:54, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 16:40 +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Yes, I realise that...been thinking of it but when I change the cron job to run as another user, that user has to be logged in. U... I log on locally as rootmaybe I should log on as myself and 'su -' if I need to do anything system-ish... Oh. Gee, I just assumed that's what everyone does. Chuckle, not all of us have drank the koolaid. I run as root here about 99% of the time. But stuff like fetchmail runs as me, gene, an unpriviledged user. Its a matter of security IMO. Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 2:37 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem But that's just it. Running fetchmail as root is a security risk. There's no reason to run it as root, since it works well from a user account. On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:49 +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Ron, Thanks for your input! Yes, that's how I have itboth accounts in one rc file. I am ok with it running as root but was wanting to stop it reporting in my mail about the warning as running as root... I shall give what you have sent me below a try and see how I fare! Kind Regards, Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 12:29 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:05 +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Yes, true... I just run the thing as root and have a .fetchmailrc file in the /root dir.. It collects mail for all users in the one file (as all 2 users are me!) Stupid cron keeps emailing me saying fetchmail said: Warning: Running as root is discouraged What if you put both accounts in the same fetchmailrc file? When I evactuated for Katrina, I kept this cox.net address, got a secondary comcast.net address from my father in Dallas, and put them both in ~/fetchmailrc, thus fetching from both accounts in the same pass. BTW, I run it out of cron: #!/bin/sh MAILTO= # m h dom mon dow command */5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/run_fetchmail.sh exit The fetchmail script can be blocked while I backup my data. $ cat /usr/local/bin/run_fetchmail.sh #!/bin/sh if [ -e /tmp/.backup.LOCK ]; then exit 0; fi /usr/bin/fetchmail -S haggis $1 Every 5 flipping minutes Am trying to find a way of turning it's user-checking off. :-) This didn't happen beforeKernels and packages are getting pickier! : :-) : Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: 'Clive Menzies' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 10:58 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem On (09/04/06 08:40), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: I slept on it and found the problem this morning. For some reason I have the command running as 'fetchmail fetchmail -v' took out the first 'fetchmail' and it all came to life. I haven't touched the crontab for ages so perhaps there was that bug all along that the last install was ignoring and this one picked up. Dear me, the tiredness-factor plays a big part sometimes! :-) Kind Regards, Hehe :) Glad you sorted it out. FWIW I run fetchmail as a daemon (no cron); you set the interval in /etc/fetchmailrc. For a single user, it's probably not worth doing but if you're collecting mail for multiple users, it saves configuring individual .fetchmailrc files. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me. Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED
Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 11:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 09 April 2006 02:54, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 16:40 +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Yes, I realise that...been thinking of it but when I change the cron job to run as another user, that user has to be logged in. U... I log on locally as rootmaybe I should log on as myself and 'su -' if I need to do anything system-ish... Oh. Gee, I just assumed that's what everyone does. Chuckle, not all of us have drank the koolaid. I run as root here about Which koolaid would that be? Remember: the reason that Windows is so open to malware is that 99.999% of user accounts have been given Administrator privilege. So, from a security POV, your box is no more secure than a random Windows box. 99% of the time. But stuff like fetchmail runs as me, gene, an unpriviledged user. Its a matter of security IMO. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. Robert Orben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
minor (major) fetchmail problem
Greetings All. Have a bit of a drama. Have done this a million times before but have reinstalled a new system and fetchmail is running as a cron job. When I run it manually, its fine. When it runs as a cron job, it sends me an email with the following: fetchmail: can't find a password for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any ideas? Kind Regards, Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob: 0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.berowrapc.com
Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem
On (08/04/06 19:52), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Have a bit of a drama.. Have done this a million times before but have reinstalled a new system and fetchmail is running as a cron job. When I run it manually, it's fine. When it runs as a cron job, it sends me an email with the following: fetchmail: can't find a password for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any ideas? It would help to see your fetchmailrc file (just remove the passwords). Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem
Hi, On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 07:52:05PM +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Greetings All. Have a bit of a drama.. Have done this a million times before but have reinstalled a new system and fetchmail is running as a cron job. When I run it manually, it's fine. When it runs as a cron job, it sends me an email with the following: fetchmail: can't find a password for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any ideas? I think I had a similar problem once. (Can't check it any more because I switched to getmail.) IIRC, run manually, fetchmail reads the config file /root/.fetchmailrc , run autonatically, it reads /etc/fetchmailrc (or similar). Kind Regards, Lloyd Bayley HTH -- Joachim Fahnenmüller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem
Clive, Thankyou for your reply. I slept on it and found the problem this morning. For some reason I have the command running as 'fetchmail fetchmail -v' took out the first 'fetchmail' and it all came to life. I haven't touched the crontab for ages so perhaps there was that bug all along that the last install was ignoring and this one picked up. Dear me, the tiredness-factor plays a big part sometimes! :-) Kind Regards, Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: Clive Menzies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 12:01 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem On (08/04/06 19:52), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Have a bit of a drama.. Have done this a million times before but have reinstalled a new system and fetchmail is running as a cron job. When I run it manually, it's fine. When it runs as a cron job, it sends me an email with the following: fetchmail: can't find a password for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any ideas? It would help to see your fetchmailrc file (just remove the passwords). Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem
On (09/04/06 08:40), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: I slept on it and found the problem this morning. For some reason I have the command running as 'fetchmail fetchmail -v' took out the first 'fetchmail' and it all came to life. I haven't touched the crontab for ages so perhaps there was that bug all along that the last install was ignoring and this one picked up. Dear me, the tiredness-factor plays a big part sometimes! :-) Kind Regards, Hehe :) Glad you sorted it out. FWIW I run fetchmail as a daemon (no cron); you set the interval in /etc/fetchmailrc. For a single user, it's probably not worth doing but if you're collecting mail for multiple users, it saves configuring individual .fetchmailrc files. Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem
Yes, true... I just run the thing as root and have a .fetchmailrc file in the /root dir.. It collects mail for all users in the one file (as all 2 users are me!) Stupid cron keeps emailing me saying fetchmail said: Warning: Running as root is discouraged Every 5 flipping minutes Am trying to find a way of turning it's user-checking off. :-) This didn't happen beforeKernels and packages are getting pickier! :-) Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: 'Clive Menzies' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 10:58 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem On (09/04/06 08:40), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: I slept on it and found the problem this morning. For some reason I have the command running as 'fetchmail fetchmail -v' took out the first 'fetchmail' and it all came to life. I haven't touched the crontab for ages so perhaps there was that bug all along that the last install was ignoring and this one picked up. Dear me, the tiredness-factor plays a big part sometimes! :-) Kind Regards, Hehe :) Glad you sorted it out. FWIW I run fetchmail as a daemon (no cron); you set the interval in /etc/fetchmailrc. For a single user, it's probably not worth doing but if you're collecting mail for multiple users, it saves configuring individual .fetchmailrc files. Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:05 +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Yes, true... I just run the thing as root and have a .fetchmailrc file in the /root dir.. It collects mail for all users in the one file (as all 2 users are me!) Stupid cron keeps emailing me saying fetchmail said: Warning: Running as root is discouraged What if you put both accounts in the same fetchmailrc file? When I evactuated for Katrina, I kept this cox.net address, got a secondary comcast.net address from my father in Dallas, and put them both in ~/fetchmailrc, thus fetching from both accounts in the same pass. BTW, I run it out of cron: #!/bin/sh MAILTO= # m h dom mon dow command */5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/run_fetchmail.sh exit The fetchmail script can be blocked while I backup my data. $ cat /usr/local/bin/run_fetchmail.sh #!/bin/sh if [ -e /tmp/.backup.LOCK ]; then exit 0; fi /usr/bin/fetchmail -S haggis $1 Every 5 flipping minutes Am trying to find a way of turning it's user-checking off. :-) This didn't happen beforeKernels and packages are getting pickier! :-) Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: 'Clive Menzies' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 10:58 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem On (09/04/06 08:40), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: I slept on it and found the problem this morning. For some reason I have the command running as 'fetchmail fetchmail -v' took out the first 'fetchmail' and it all came to life. I haven't touched the crontab for ages so perhaps there was that bug all along that the last install was ignoring and this one picked up. Dear me, the tiredness-factor plays a big part sometimes! :-) Kind Regards, Hehe :) Glad you sorted it out. FWIW I run fetchmail as a daemon (no cron); you set the interval in /etc/fetchmailrc. For a single user, it's probably not worth doing but if you're collecting mail for multiple users, it saves configuring individual .fetchmailrc files. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA Its easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. P.J. O'Rourke, satirist -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem
Ron, Thanks for your input! Yes, that's how I have itboth accounts in one rc file. I am ok with it running as root but was wanting to stop it reporting in my mail about the warning as running as root... I shall give what you have sent me below a try and see how I fare! Kind Regards, Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 12:29 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:05 +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Yes, true... I just run the thing as root and have a .fetchmailrc file in the /root dir.. It collects mail for all users in the one file (as all 2 users are me!) Stupid cron keeps emailing me saying fetchmail said: Warning: Running as root is discouraged What if you put both accounts in the same fetchmailrc file? When I evactuated for Katrina, I kept this cox.net address, got a secondary comcast.net address from my father in Dallas, and put them both in ~/fetchmailrc, thus fetching from both accounts in the same pass. BTW, I run it out of cron: #!/bin/sh MAILTO= # m h dom mon dow command */5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/run_fetchmail.sh exit The fetchmail script can be blocked while I backup my data. $ cat /usr/local/bin/run_fetchmail.sh #!/bin/sh if [ -e /tmp/.backup.LOCK ]; then exit 0; fi /usr/bin/fetchmail -S haggis $1 Every 5 flipping minutes Am trying to find a way of turning it's user-checking off. :-) This didn't happen beforeKernels and packages are getting pickier! :-) Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: 'Clive Menzies' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 10:58 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem On (09/04/06 08:40), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: I slept on it and found the problem this morning. For some reason I have the command running as 'fetchmail fetchmail -v' took out the first 'fetchmail' and it all came to life. I haven't touched the crontab for ages so perhaps there was that bug all along that the last install was ignoring and this one picked up. Dear me, the tiredness-factor plays a big part sometimes! :-) Kind Regards, Hehe :) Glad you sorted it out. FWIW I run fetchmail as a daemon (no cron); you set the interval in /etc/fetchmailrc. For a single user, it's probably not worth doing but if you're collecting mail for multiple users, it saves configuring individual .fetchmailrc files. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA Its easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. P.J. O'Rourke, satirist -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem
On Saturday 08 April 2006 22:05, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Yes, true... I just run the thing as root and have a .fetchmailrc file in the /root dir.. It collects mail for all users in the one file (as all 2 users are me!) Stupid cron keeps emailing me saying fetchmail said: Warning: Running as root is discouraged Every 5 flipping minutes Am trying to find a way of turning it's user-checking off. :-) This didn't happen beforeKernels and packages are getting pickier! :-) Then why don't you reconfigure your incoming mail to run as non-root? 1. fetchmail can be told to run as an unpriviledged user 2. fetchmail can be told to run as a daemon with every so many seconds wakeup time, so you only start it once in rc.local or such. 3. fetchamil can interface with procmail to use procmail as the MDA 4. procmail can /dev/null obnoxious mail, and run spamassassins spamc over whats left, and the SA marked mail is finally delivered to the unpriviledged users /var/spool/$user/mail-file. 5. Then you can use your fav email agent such as kmail, to fetch from this unpriviledged users mailbox and sort it, with the spam going to a dedicated JunqueMail folder for later perusal to check on spamassassins accuracy, or to fine tune its bayes database. 6. This gets rid of 95% of kmails lags because its single-threaded. :-) Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: 'Clive Menzies' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 10:58 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem On (09/04/06 08:40), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: I slept on it and found the problem this morning. For some reason I have the command running as 'fetchmail fetchmail -v' took out the first 'fetchmail' and it all came to life. I haven't touched the crontab for ages so perhaps there was that bug all along that the last install was ignoring and this one picked up. Dear me, the tiredness-factor plays a big part sometimes! :-) Kind Regards, Hehe :) Glad you sorted it out. FWIW I run fetchmail as a daemon (no cron); you set the interval in /etc/fetchmailrc. For a single user, it's probably not worth doing but if you're collecting mail for multiple users, it saves configuring individual .fetchmailrc files. Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem
But that's just it. Running fetchmail as root is a security risk. There's no reason to run it as root, since it works well from a user account. On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:49 +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Ron, Thanks for your input! Yes, that's how I have itboth accounts in one rc file. I am ok with it running as root but was wanting to stop it reporting in my mail about the warning as running as root... I shall give what you have sent me below a try and see how I fare! Kind Regards, Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 12:29 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:05 +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Yes, true... I just run the thing as root and have a .fetchmailrc file in the /root dir.. It collects mail for all users in the one file (as all 2 users are me!) Stupid cron keeps emailing me saying fetchmail said: Warning: Running as root is discouraged What if you put both accounts in the same fetchmailrc file? When I evactuated for Katrina, I kept this cox.net address, got a secondary comcast.net address from my father in Dallas, and put them both in ~/fetchmailrc, thus fetching from both accounts in the same pass. BTW, I run it out of cron: #!/bin/sh MAILTO= # m h dom mon dow command */5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/run_fetchmail.sh exit The fetchmail script can be blocked while I backup my data. $ cat /usr/local/bin/run_fetchmail.sh #!/bin/sh if [ -e /tmp/.backup.LOCK ]; then exit 0; fi /usr/bin/fetchmail -S haggis $1 Every 5 flipping minutes Am trying to find a way of turning it's user-checking off. :-) This didn't happen beforeKernels and packages are getting pickier! :-) Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob:0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: 'Clive Menzies' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 10:58 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem On (09/04/06 08:40), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: I slept on it and found the problem this morning. For some reason I have the command running as 'fetchmail fetchmail -v' took out the first 'fetchmail' and it all came to life. I haven't touched the crontab for ages so perhaps there was that bug all along that the last install was ignoring and this one picked up. Dear me, the tiredness-factor plays a big part sometimes! :-) Kind Regards, Hehe :) Glad you sorted it out. FWIW I run fetchmail as a daemon (no cron); you set the interval in /etc/fetchmailrc. For a single user, it's probably not worth doing but if you're collecting mail for multiple users, it saves configuring individual .fetchmailrc files. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA Its easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. P.J. O'Rourke, satirist -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence. John Kenneth Galbraith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW: Fetchmail Problem...
Hallo, Entschuldigt die späte Antwort, bin leider nicht früher dazu gekommen. Habe das Problem zwischenzeitlich gefunden, Ursache war /etc/init.d/fetchmail. Die E-Mails werden mit fetchmail via crontab abgeholt und weitergeleitet, der fetchmail Daemon holte diese auch ab und legte die Mails lokal ab (da kein Empfänger). Fetchmail Daemon deaktiviert, alles Sonne :-). Vielen Dank, nochmals. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Michelle Konzack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Samstag, 16. Juli 2005 11:50 An: debian-user-german@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Fetchmail Problem... Hallo Stefan, Am 2005-07-15 08:21:32, schrieb Drees Stefan: Hallo, wir setzen zur Zeit einen Debian Linux Server ein, welcher E-Mails mit fetchmail abholt und direkt an einen Exchange 5.5 Server weiterleitet. Das funktioniert auch, allerdings landen hin und wieder E-Mails im /var/run/fetchmail/Maildir/new/ Verzeichnis. Kann mir jemand sagen warum das passiert und wie ich die Mails da rauskriege/ weitergeleitet? Kommandozeile fetchmail: /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -v -t 1200 -S ex55.domain.de --smtpname domain.de -f /etc/fetchmailrc /var/log/fetchmail.log 21 Wenn Du dazu keinen Abschnitt der Logdatei plus die Header der Mail die in /var/run/fetchmail/Maildir/new/ landete sowie die /etc/fetchmailrc mitlieferst, wird Dir hier niemand sagen können was nicht funktionierte. Mit freundliche Grüssen S.Drees Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/8845235667100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
Re: Fetchmail Problem...
Hallo Stefan, Am 2005-07-15 08:21:32, schrieb Drees Stefan: Hallo, wir setzen zur Zeit einen Debian Linux Server ein, welcher E-Mails mit fetchmail abholt und direkt an einen Exchange 5.5 Server weiterleitet. Das funktioniert auch, allerdings landen hin und wieder E-Mails im /var/run/fetchmail/Maildir/new/ Verzeichnis. Kann mir jemand sagen warum das passiert und wie ich die Mails da rauskriege/ weitergeleitet? Kommandozeile fetchmail: /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -v -t 1200 -S ex55.domain.de --smtpname domain.de -f /etc/fetchmailrc /var/log/fetchmail.log 21 Wenn Du dazu keinen Abschnitt der Logdatei plus die Header der Mail die in /var/run/fetchmail/Maildir/new/ landete sowie die /etc/fetchmailrc mitlieferst, wird Dir hier niemand sagen können was nicht funktionierte. Mit freundliche Grüssen S.Drees Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/8845235667100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) signature.pgp Description: Digital signature
Fetchmail Problem...
Hallo, wir setzen zur Zeit einen Debian Linux Server ein, welcher E-Mails mit fetchmail abholt und direkt an einen Exchange 5.5 Server weiterleitet. Das funktioniert auch, allerdings landen hin und wieder E-Mails im /var/run/fetchmail/Maildir/new/ Verzeichnis. Kann mir jemand sagen warum das passiert und wie ich die Mails da rauskriege/ weitergeleitet? Kommandozeile fetchmail: /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -v -t 1200 -Sex55.domain.de --smtpname domain.de -f /etc/fetchmailrc /var/log/fetchmail.log 21 Mit freundliche Grüssen S.Drees
fetchmail problem, can't start
I noticed that since last night fetchmail is not working (as user). The way I have it set up is that the user (me) has the settings in .fetchmailrc in /home/tony/ Last night we had some power outage, and probably after it is the the problem started. This is what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bash -x $(which fetchmail) /usr/bin/fetchmail: /usr/bin/fetchmail: cannot execute binary file [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ and [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/fetchmail -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 209976 2004-07-04 16:34 /usr/bin/fetchmail [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ (line broken by emacs) Does any one have any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail problem, can't start
Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez: I noticed that since last night fetchmail is not working (as user). The way I have it set up is that the user (me) has the settings in .fetchmailrc in /home/tony/ Last night we had some power outage, and probably after it is the the problem started. This is what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bash -x $(which fetchmail) /usr/bin/fetchmail: /usr/bin/fetchmail: cannot execute binary file Do you have a ~/.fetchmail.pid? rm that and try again. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail problem, can't start
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:01:49AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez: I noticed that since last night fetchmail is not working (as user). The way I have it set up is that the user (me) has the settings in .fetchmailrc in /home/tony/ Last night we had some power outage, and probably after it is the the problem started. This is what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bash -x $(which fetchmail) /usr/bin/fetchmail: /usr/bin/fetchmail: cannot execute binary file Do you have a ~/.fetchmail.pid? rm that and try again. It worked perfectly. Thank you. Is this *.pid created due to a falure of the original process? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail problem, can't start
Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez: On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:01:49AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bash -x $(which fetchmail) /usr/bin/fetchmail: /usr/bin/fetchmail: cannot execute binary file Do you have a ~/.fetchmail.pid? rm that and try again. It worked perfectly. Thank you. Is this *.pid created due to a falure of the original process? man fetchmail and /FILES: ~/.fetchmail.pid lock file to help prevent concurrent runs (non-root mode). You wouldn't want two fetchmail processes going after the same thing at the same time. They'd both fail for nonsensical reasons. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail Problem
Christian Frommeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: Stefan Garweg schrieb: server = /usr/sbin/exim Müsste das jetzt vielleicht exim4 heißen? nach meinem Dafuerhalten sollte es immer /usr/sbin/sendmail heissen, weil offensichtlich etliche Programme dort als erstes suchen. /usr/sbin/sendmail wird dann auf das eigentliche Programm verlinkt. So ist das mindestens hier auf einer Woody/Stable geloest. Gruss Peter Blancke -- Hoc est enim verbum meum! -- Haeufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
fetchmail Problem
Guten Morgen zusammen,
nach einem Update gestern, ist es mit meinem Rechner leider nicht mehr
möglich mit fetchmail meine Mails abzuholen und an die in fetchmailrc
definierten Benutzerpostfächer zu verteilen.
Ich habe leider keine Ahnung, warum die SMTP-Verbindung jedesmal
fehlschlägt. Hat jemand zufällig einen Tipp für mich?
/var/log/syslog gibt folgendes aus:
Apr 24 12:19:02 phily fetchmail[319]: reading message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 of 20 (1381 octets)
Apr 24 12:19:02 phily xinetd[443]: libwrap refused connection to smtp
from 127.0.0.1
Apr 24 12:19:02 phily xinetd[444]: libwrap refused connection to smtp
from 127.0.0.1
Apr 24 12:19:02 phily fetchmail[319]: SMTP connect to localhost failed
Apr 24 12:19:02 phily fetchmail[319]: SMTP transaction error while
fetching from pop.web.de
Apr 24 12:19:02 phily fetchmail[319]: Query status=10 (SMTP)
Da das Problem mit einer Lib für xinetd zu tun hat, anbei mal der
xinetd.conf Auszug für SMTP bzw POP3:
service smtp
{
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
user= mail
server = /usr/sbin/exim
server_args = -bs
}
service pop-3
{
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
user= root
server = /usr/sbin/in.qpopper
server_args = -f /etc/qpopper.conf
}
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Re: fetchmail Problem
Hallo Stefan, Stefan Garweg, 24.04.2004 (d.m.y): nach einem Update gestern, ist es mit meinem Rechner leider nicht mehr möglich mit fetchmail meine Mails abzuholen und an die in fetchmailrc definierten Benutzerpostfächer zu verteilen. Ich habe leider keine Ahnung, warum die SMTP-Verbindung jedesmal fehlschlägt. Das steht doch da unten... Hat jemand zufällig einen Tipp für mich? /var/log/syslog gibt folgendes aus: Apr 24 12:19:02 phily fetchmail[319]: reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 of 20 (1381 octets) Apr 24 12:19:02 phily xinetd[443]: libwrap refused connection to smtp from 127.0.0.1 Dein System ist der Meinung, dass es nicht mit seinem eigenen SMTP-Dienst sprechen darf... Das Bearbeoten der /etc/hosts.allow sollte Abhilfe schaffen. [..] Da das Problem mit einer Lib für xinetd zu tun hat, anbei mal der xinetd.conf Auszug für SMTP bzw POP3: Die libwrap muss nicht nur vom (x)inetd verwendet werden... Davin abgesehen wuerde ich exim auch als Daemon laufen lassen. Damit wuerde sich Dein Problem vermutlich auch beheben... Gruss, Christian -- Zwei Tage vor'm LT MUSS man saufen! -- Michael Kleinhenz pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: fetchmail Problem
Hi Christian Christian Schmidt wrote: Hallo Stefan, Stefan Garweg, 24.04.2004 (d.m.y): nach einem Update gestern, ist es mit meinem Rechner leider nicht mehr möglich mit fetchmail meine Mails abzuholen und an die in fetchmailrc definierten Benutzerpostfächer zu verteilen. Ich habe leider keine Ahnung, warum die SMTP-Verbindung jedesmal fehlschlägt. Das steht doch da unten... jetzt wo du es sagst ;-) Hat jemand zufällig einen Tipp für mich? /var/log/syslog gibt folgendes aus: Apr 24 12:19:02 phily fetchmail[319]: reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 of 20 (1381 octets) Apr 24 12:19:02 phily xinetd[443]: libwrap refused connection to smtp from 127.0.0.1 Dein System ist der Meinung, dass es nicht mit seinem eigenen SMTP-Dienst sprechen darf... soweit war ich auch... ABER Das Bearbeoten der /etc/hosts.allow sollte Abhilfe schaffen. [..] hier lag der Hund begraben.. weiß der Teufel wie, aber in der /etc/hosts.allow fehlte plötzlich der entscheidene Eintrag ALL: LOCAL Da das Problem mit einer Lib für xinetd zu tun hat, anbei mal der xinetd.conf Auszug für SMTP bzw POP3: Die libwrap muss nicht nur vom (x)inetd verwendet werden... aber auch ;-) Davin abgesehen wuerde ich exim auch als Daemon laufen lassen. Damit wuerde sich Dein Problem vermutlich auch beheben... Danke für den Hinweis... Hast eigentlich recht... könnte man(ich) mal hier ändern... Gruss, Christian In diesem Sinne ein schönes WE, und danke für die Hilfe! Gruß, Stefan -- Haeufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: fetchmail Problem
Stefan Garweg schrieb: nach einem Update gestern, ist es mit meinem Rechner leider nicht mehr server = /usr/sbin/exim Müsste das jetzt vielleicht exim4 heißen? Gruß Chris -- This message was ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security. -- Haeufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Exim/fetchmail problem
Hi! I've been running a server with Debian GNU/Linux stable for a few years now. Due to some reasons I recently upgraded to unstable. I didn't change the configuration of exim and fetchmail, but now I'm experiencing problems. The relevant part of my /etc/fetchmailrc looks like this: poll POP3_SERVER proto POP3 user USER there with password PASS is USER here ssl no rewrite fetchall mda /usr/sbin/exim -i -f '%F' %T; Words written in capital are actually replaced with the real values here on my setup. Well, the problem now is, that not all mails are fetched anymore, but mails are left on the server. That's what /var/log/mail.log has to say about this problem: Mar 1 05:26:21 roma fetchmail[966]: awakened at Mon Mar 1 05:26:21 2004 Mar 1 05:26:25 roma fetchmail[966]: 1 message for Stefan.Bellon at pop.t-online.de (37799 octets). Mar 1 05:26:25 roma fetchmail[966]: reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 of 1 (37799 octets) Mar 1 05:26:25 roma fetchmail[966]: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error Mar 1 05:26:25 roma fetchmail[966]: socket error while delivering to SMTP hostpop.t-online.de Mar 1 05:26:25 roma fetchmail[966]: Query status=2 (SOCKET) Mar 1 05:26:32 roma fetchmail[966]: sleeping at Mon Mar 1 05:26:32 2004 So, I looked in /var/log/fetchmail and found this: sh: line 1: : Permission denied I guessed that it may be the '%F' part in the fetchmailrc and replaced it with just '%F'. This time, I still get the same problem but with a different entry in /var/log/fetchmail: sh: line 1: : No such file or directory So, I really think the %F part in the fetchmailrc is the problem. Having investigated the messages that cause this problem, I noticed that all messages have one thing in common: The same Return-Path: line, namely this one: Return-Path: What do I have to change to make that setup work again, even with empty Return-Path headers? Thanks a lot in advance! -- Stefan Bellon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix + fetchmail problem
I'd add a plain localhost entry to mydestination. Regards, Stefan Vunckx On Friday 27 February 2004 08:26, David Clymer wrote: I've been an exim user for quite a while now, but recently decided to fool with Postfix a bit. I'm also attempting to become a trial fetchmail+mutt user. So, I set up Postfix to relay mail through my remote mailserver using smtp authentication, and set up fetchmail to grab my mail. The problem is that when I invoke fetchmail, it downloads my mail, but Postfix promptly attempts to relay it to the remote mail server rather than delivering it to my local account. I've thus far been unable to figure out why this is happening. Mail between local users is delivered locally, and I can send to remote addresses without problems. If anyone has any insight into this problem or can point me to a relevant portion of TFM, I'd be greatful. My Postfix main.cf is as follows: - # see /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, fuller # version of this file. # Do not change these directory settings - they are critical to Postfix # operation. command_directory = /usr/sbin daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix program_directory = /usr/lib/postfix setgid_group = postdrop # appending .domain is the MUA's job. append_dot_mydomain = no smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU) biff = no # Uncomment the next line to generate delayed mail warnings #delay_warning_time = 4h myhostname = zepto.local.localdomain mydomain = local.localdomain alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain # relay my outgoing mail smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_passwd_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd relayhost = mail.zettazebra.com mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 mailbox_command = procmail -a $EXTENSION mailbox_size_limit = 0 recipient_delimiter = + myorigin = /etc/mailname My .fetchmailrc is below: poll mail.zettazebra.com proto pop3 user [EMAIL PROTECTED] with password is david here keep; [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/mailname zepto.local.localdomain [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost zepto zepto.local.localdomain # for testing purposes only #127.0.0.1 zettazebra.com localhost # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts # (added automatically by netbase upgrade) ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts I'm running debian/testing. -davidc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix + fetchmail problem
I would also change the /etc/hosts to be like this [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost IP number zepto zepto.local.localdomain Stefan Vunckx wrote: I'd add a plain localhost entry to mydestination. Regards, Stefan Vunckx On Friday 27 February 2004 08:26, David Clymer wrote: I've been an exim user for quite a while now, but recently decided to fool with Postfix a bit. I'm also attempting to become a trial fetchmail+mutt user. So, I set up Postfix to relay mail through my remote mailserver using smtp authentication, and set up fetchmail to grab my mail. The problem is that when I invoke fetchmail, it downloads my mail, but Postfix promptly attempts to relay it to the remote mail server rather than delivering it to my local account. I've thus far been unable to figure out why this is happening. Mail between local users is delivered locally, and I can send to remote addresses without problems. If anyone has any insight into this problem or can point me to a relevant portion of TFM, I'd be greatful. My Postfix main.cf is as follows: - # see /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, fuller # version of this file. # Do not change these directory settings - they are critical to Postfix # operation. command_directory = /usr/sbin daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix program_directory = /usr/lib/postfix setgid_group = postdrop # appending .domain is the MUA's job. append_dot_mydomain = no smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU) biff = no # Uncomment the next line to generate delayed mail warnings #delay_warning_time = 4h myhostname = zepto.local.localdomain mydomain = local.localdomain alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain # relay my outgoing mail smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_passwd_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd relayhost = mail.zettazebra.com mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 mailbox_command = procmail -a $EXTENSION mailbox_size_limit = 0 recipient_delimiter = + myorigin = /etc/mailname My .fetchmailrc is below: poll mail.zettazebra.com proto pop3 user [EMAIL PROTECTED] with password is david here keep; [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/mailname zepto.local.localdomain [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost zepto zepto.local.localdomain # for testing purposes only #127.0.0.1 zettazebra.com localhost # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts # (added automatically by netbase upgrade) ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts I'm running debian/testing. -davidc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix + fetchmail problem
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 09:50, Bengt Thuree wrote: I would also change the /etc/hosts to be like this [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost IP number zepto zepto.local.localdomain I've got dialup currently, so I have no static IP to use like that. The best I can do is the loopback. Exim seemed to work fine with my current /etc/hosts entries -davidc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix + fetchmail problem
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 09:21, Stefan Vunckx wrote: I'd add a plain localhost entry to mydestination. Regards, Stefan Vunckx Yeah, that was it, thanks. -davidc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix + fetchmail problem
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 02:26, David Clymer wrote: I've been an exim user for quite a while now, but recently decided to fool with Postfix a bit. I'm also attempting to become a trial fetchmail+mutt user. So, I set up Postfix to relay mail through my remote mailserver using smtp authentication, and set up fetchmail to grab my mail. The problem is that when I invoke fetchmail, it downloads my mail, but Postfix promptly attempts to relay it to the remote mail server rather than delivering it to my local account. the fetchmail local delivery part is working now. I've thus far been unable to figure out why this is happening. Mail between local users is delivered locally, and I can send to remote addresses without problems. Ok, it seems I was lieing about this. SMTP auth doesnt seem to be working after all. My original test was a stupid one. Looking at my logs, I see this: Feb 27 13:19:13 localhost postfix/master[5756]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtp pid 5885 exit status 1 Feb 27 13:19:13 localhost postfix/master[5756]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtp:bad command startup -- throttling Feb 27 13:20:13 localhost postfix/smtp[5898]: fatal: specify a password table via the `smtp_sasl_password_maps' configuration parameter As can be seen in my config below, I've specified the smtp_sasl_password_maps as /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd and provided the map as demonstrated in /usr/share/doc/postfix/examples/sample-smtpd.cf.gz I've changed the permissions of my sasl_passwd file to 600, but originally it was 644, and the problem was still occuring. My understanding is that postix starts as root reads all the must read as root files, then switches to a less priveliged user, so I dont think the permissions should be a problem I've poured over http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/smtp_auth_mailservers.html, and it seems I am doing everything the same...I'm stumped. Google mostly returns results in languages I only partially understand, and the solutions that others have found dont seem to apply in my case - they dont work for me, at least. If anyone has any insight into this problem or can point me to a relevant portion of TFM, I'd be greatful. My Postfix main.cf is as follows: - # see /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, fuller # version of this file. # Do not change these directory settings - they are critical to Postfix # operation. command_directory = /usr/sbin daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix program_directory = /usr/lib/postfix setgid_group = postdrop # appending .domain is the MUA's job. append_dot_mydomain = no smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU) biff = no # Uncomment the next line to generate delayed mail warnings #delay_warning_time = 4h myhostname = zepto.local.localdomain mydomain = local.localdomain alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain # relay my outgoing mail smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_passwd_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd I added here: smtp_sasl_security_options= relayhost = mail.zettazebra.com mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 mailbox_command = procmail -a $EXTENSION mailbox_size_limit = 0 recipient_delimiter = + myorigin = /etc/mailname My .fetchmailrc is below: poll mail.zettazebra.com proto pop3 user [EMAIL PROTECTED] with password is david here keep; [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/mailname zepto.local.localdomain [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost zepto zepto.local.localdomain # for testing purposes only #127.0.0.1 zettazebra.com localhost # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts # (added automatically by netbase upgrade) ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts I'm running debian/testing. -davidc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix + fetchmail problem
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 13:38, David Clymer wrote: On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 02:26, David Clymer wrote: I've been an exim user for quite a while now, but recently decided to fool with Postfix a bit. I'm also attempting to become a trial fetchmail+mutt user. So, I set up Postfix to relay mail through my remote mailserver using smtp authentication, and set up fetchmail to grab my mail. The problem is that when I invoke fetchmail, it downloads my mail, but Postfix promptly attempts to relay it to the remote mail server rather than delivering it to my local account. the fetchmail local delivery part is working now. I've thus far been unable to figure out why this is happening. Mail between local users is delivered locally, and I can send to remote addresses without problems. Ok, it seems I was lieing about this. SMTP auth doesnt seem to be working after all. My original test was a stupid one. Looking at my logs, I see this: Feb 27 13:19:13 localhost postfix/master[5756]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtp pid 5885 exit status 1 Feb 27 13:19:13 localhost postfix/master[5756]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtp:bad command startup -- throttling Feb 27 13:20:13 localhost postfix/smtp[5898]: fatal: specify a password table via the `smtp_sasl_password_maps' configuration parameter As can be seen in my config below, I've specified the smtp_sasl_password_maps as /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd and provided the map as demonstrated in /usr/share/doc/postfix/examples/sample-smtpd.cf.gz I've changed the permissions of my sasl_passwd file to 600, but originally it was 644, and the problem was still occuring. My understanding is that postix starts as root reads all the must read as root files, then switches to a less priveliged user, so I dont think the permissions should be a problem I've poured over http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/smtp_auth_mailservers.html, and it seems I am doing everything the same...I'm stumped. Google mostly returns results in languages I only partially understand, and the solutions that others have found dont seem to apply in my case - they dont work for me, at least. This problem has been solved by adhering to the ol' configuration rule of thumb: spell stuff right. I had smtp_sasl_passwd_maps rather than smtp_sasl_password_maps. -davidc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Postfix + fetchmail problem
I've been an exim user for quite a while now, but recently decided to fool with Postfix a bit. I'm also attempting to become a trial fetchmail+mutt user. So, I set up Postfix to relay mail through my remote mailserver using smtp authentication, and set up fetchmail to grab my mail. The problem is that when I invoke fetchmail, it downloads my mail, but Postfix promptly attempts to relay it to the remote mail server rather than delivering it to my local account. I've thus far been unable to figure out why this is happening. Mail between local users is delivered locally, and I can send to remote addresses without problems. If anyone has any insight into this problem or can point me to a relevant portion of TFM, I'd be greatful. My Postfix main.cf is as follows: - # see /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, fuller # version of this file. # Do not change these directory settings - they are critical to Postfix # operation. command_directory = /usr/sbin daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix program_directory = /usr/lib/postfix setgid_group = postdrop # appending .domain is the MUA's job. append_dot_mydomain = no smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU) biff = no # Uncomment the next line to generate delayed mail warnings #delay_warning_time = 4h myhostname = zepto.local.localdomain mydomain = local.localdomain alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain # relay my outgoing mail smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_passwd_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd relayhost = mail.zettazebra.com mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 mailbox_command = procmail -a $EXTENSION mailbox_size_limit = 0 recipient_delimiter = + myorigin = /etc/mailname My .fetchmailrc is below: poll mail.zettazebra.com proto pop3 user [EMAIL PROTECTED] with password is david here keep; [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/mailname zepto.local.localdomain [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost zepto zepto.local.localdomain # for testing purposes only #127.0.0.1 zettazebra.com localhost # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts # (added automatically by netbase upgrade) ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts I'm running debian/testing. -davidc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail problem (maybe bug)
Es geschah am Samstag, 6. Dezember 2003 04:49 als Marc Wilson schrieb: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:51:37AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: I'm using fetchmail 5.9.11-6.2 from woody since a while without any problems, but now mail retrieval fails with the following error messages: fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3 -ERR cannot open disk file error 2 fetchmail: cannot open disk file error 2 fetchmail: POP3 QUIT fetchmail: POP3 +OK POP3 server closing connection fetchmail: client/server protocol error while fetching from mail.epost.de In this case, malformed headers in some spam is rejected by your local MTA. The result is that messages aren't delivered. Uh, no, if you'll note from the direction of the arrows (and the OP's later message where he telnet's to the POPd), the error about the disk file is coming from the POP server, and has nothing to do with the local MTA or fetchmail itself. Exactly, when I connect via telnet I can list all emails without a problem, but when I try get (RETR) one of the erroneous emails, the server just replies with the following single line -ERR cannot open disk file error So no single byte of this email is transmitted and this has really nothing to do with fetchmail, BUT the bug regarding fetchmail IMO is, that it doesn't act like my other email clients, just ignoring this error while RETR one of those erroneous emails and trying to proceed to RETR the next email in the list to fetch those emails that are actually downloadable, and this has absolutely nothing to do with my local MTA; fetchmail just dies with the first error message trying to download one of the erroneous emails. Or do you think this an appropriate behaviour? Best regards Chrisian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail problem (maybe bug)
on Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 02:59:55PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi! I'm using fetchmail 5.9.11-6.2 from woody since a while without any problems, but now mail retrieval fails with the following error messages: fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3 -ERR cannot open disk file error 2 fetchmail: cannot open disk file error 2 fetchmail: POP3 QUIT fetchmail: POP3 +OK POP3 server closing connection fetchmail: client/server protocol error while fetching from mail.epost.de I suspect you're dropping fetchmail output onto your local TMA, possibly exim? In this case, malformed headers in some spam is rejected by your local MTA. The result is that messages aren't delivered. Two solutions: - Drop output directly onto a local mda such as procmail with the mda option (man fetchmail). - Use direct access to your POP box (telnet 110 or pop3browser) to identify the malignant mail and delete it from the remote server. Please reply directly to me, because I'm not subscribed to the list at the moment. In which case: set your reply-to appropriately. More generally, requesting a CC rather than a personal response is considered preferable. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: Over a billion Whoppers served. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: fetchmail problem (maybe bug)
Es geschah am Freitag, 5. Dezember 2003 17:51 als Karsten M. Self schrieb: on Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 02:59:55PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi! I'm using fetchmail 5.9.11-6.2 from woody since a while without any problems, but now mail retrieval fails with the following error messages: fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3 -ERR cannot open disk file error 2 fetchmail: cannot open disk file error 2 fetchmail: POP3 QUIT fetchmail: POP3 +OK POP3 server closing connection fetchmail: client/server protocol error while fetching from mail.epost.de I suspect you're dropping fetchmail output onto your local TMA, possibly exim? In this case, malformed headers in some spam is rejected by your local MTA. The result is that messages aren't delivered. Two solutions: - Drop output directly onto a local mda such as procmail with the mda option (man fetchmail). - Use direct access to your POP box (telnet 110 or pop3browser) to identify the malignant mail and delete it from the remote server. Yes, that was it, thanks! No email client was able to fetch those mails (15 mails) which caused the problem, so I had to telnet it. RETR one of those 15 messages failed on server side, so I had no chance to look what these mails were and where they came from. But at least DELE those mails fixed the problem. But IMHO I still think this can be considered as a bug in fetchmail: my other email clients just ignored those couple of mails that were stuck on the server, fetchmail just stops processing when it got an error while trying to RETR one of those messages. It should just ignore these and continue to fetch the next ones. (please CC me, I'm not subscribed to the list currently) Best regards Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail problem (maybe bug)
on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:28:29PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Es geschah am Freitag, 5. Dezember 2003 17:51 als Karsten M. Self schrieb: on Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 02:59:55PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm using fetchmail 5.9.11-6.2 from woody since a while without any problems, but now mail retrieval fails with the following error messages: fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3 -ERR cannot open disk file error 2 fetchmail: cannot open disk file error 2 fetchmail: POP3 QUIT fetchmail: POP3 +OK POP3 server closing connection fetchmail: client/server protocol error while fetching from mail.epost.de I suspect you're dropping fetchmail output onto your local TMA, possibly exim? In this case, malformed headers in some spam is rejected by your local MTA. The result is that messages aren't delivered. Two solutions: - Drop output directly onto a local mda such as procmail with the mda option (man fetchmail). - Use direct access to your POP box (telnet 110 or pop3browser) to identify the malignant mail and delete it from the remote server. No email client was able to fetch those mails (15 mails) which caused the problem, so I had to telnet it. RETR one of those 15 messages failed on server side, so I had no chance to look what these mails were and where they came from. But at least DELE those mails fixed the problem. Again: pop3browser may be useful hee. But IMHO I still think this can be considered as a bug in fetchmail: No. Exim is refusing to accept the message. Fetchmail is doing what it should: it's telling you that it tried, but was unable, to deliver the mail. It *could* phrase the error more clearly to indicate the problem is local, rather than remote. I've not been able to convince exim that it should allow these mails, nor am I sure of a fix which says to simply dump such messages. Note that other clients (e.g.: Eudora) fail rather more dramatically in situations such as this. my other email clients just ignored those couple of mails that were stuck on the server, fetchmail just stops processing when it got an error while trying to RETR one of those messages. It should just ignore these and continue to fetch the next ones. I'm not sure this is the case -- while fetchmail reports an error, I seem to recall it actually fetching other mails, if not on first pass, then eventually. But I could be wrong, this only happens periodically. (please CC me, I'm not subscribed to the list currently) Second request: set your Reply-To header to reflect your wishes, or browse archives or usenet (gmane apparently gateways d-u) yourself. My next response will simply be list default. And moreover: do *not* CC me. I *am* subscribed to the list. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: Four More Wars! pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: fetchmail problem (maybe bug)
Em Fri, 05 Dec 2003 20:28:29 +0100, Christian Schoenebeck escreveu: I still think this can be considered as a bug in fetchmail: my other email clients just ignored those couple of mails that were stuck on the server, fetchmail just stops processing when it got an error while trying to RETR one of those messages. It should just ignore these and continue to fetch the next ones. Obviously ignoring is not an option. The MUA can bypass, but the user has to receive at least an error message in a log or something the like. -- Leandro Guimares Faria Corsetti Dutra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belo Horizonte, Londrina, So Paulo +55 (11) 5686 9607 http://br.geocities.com./lgcdutra/ +55 (11) 5685 2219 Soli Deo Gloria!+55 (11) 9406 7191 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail problem (maybe bug)
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:51:37AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: I'm using fetchmail 5.9.11-6.2 from woody since a while without any problems, but now mail retrieval fails with the following error messages: fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3 -ERR cannot open disk file error 2 fetchmail: cannot open disk file error 2 fetchmail: POP3 QUIT fetchmail: POP3 +OK POP3 server closing connection fetchmail: client/server protocol error while fetching from mail.epost.de In this case, malformed headers in some spam is rejected by your local MTA. The result is that messages aren't delivered. Uh, no, if you'll note from the direction of the arrows (and the OP's later message where he telnet's to the POPd), the error about the disk file is coming from the POP server, and has nothing to do with the local MTA or fetchmail itself. Now... why the remote might be having problems opening a disk file, I have no idea, but the problem isn't on the local end. -- Marc Wilson | Today, THREE WINOS from DETROIT sold me a framed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | photo of TAB HUNTER before his MAKEOVER! signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: fetchmail problem (maybe bug)
on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 07:49:40PM -0800, Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:51:37AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: I'm using fetchmail 5.9.11-6.2 from woody since a while without any problems, but now mail retrieval fails with the following error messages: fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3 -ERR cannot open disk file error 2 fetchmail: cannot open disk file error 2 fetchmail: POP3 QUIT fetchmail: POP3 +OK POP3 server closing connection fetchmail: client/server protocol error while fetching from mail.epost.de In this case, malformed headers in some spam is rejected by your local MTA. The result is that messages aren't delivered. Uh, no, if you'll note from the direction of the arrows (and the OP's later message where he telnet's to the POPd), the error about the disk file is coming from the POP server, and has nothing to do with the local MTA or fetchmail itself. Possible. As I'd indicated, I run across this periodically. At unpredictable times, without access to the file in question, and generally with a primary objective of clearing the problem and retrieving my mail successfully. So I may have bits wrong. OTOH, when I've seen the error, the indication of where the problem is has been vague. This is consistent with posts I've seen from others. And I resolved the problem previously by bypassing the local MTA, as described. Now... why the remote might be having problems opening a disk file, I have no idea, but the problem isn't on the local end. Somewhat consistent with the other characteristics described by the OP, through. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? The golden rule of technical design: complexity is the enemy. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
fetchmail problem (maybe bug)
Hi! I'm using fetchmail 5.9.11-6.2 from woody since a while without any problems, but now mail retrieval fails with the following error messages: fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3 -ERR cannot open disk file error 2 fetchmail: cannot open disk file error 2 fetchmail: POP3 QUIT fetchmail: POP3 +OK POP3 server closing connection fetchmail: client/server protocol error while fetching from mail.epost.de fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying mail.epost.de (protocol POP3) at Sun 30 Nov 2003 14:40:45 CET: poll completed fetchmail: Query status=4 (PROTOCOL) fetchmail: normal termination, status 4 This happened from one day to another without changing anything. I have plenty enogh of disk space and also plenty enough free inodes so I'm clueless what this could be or what I could do to fix it. Perhaps my mail provider changed something, but I can read and download my mails directly with kmail without any problems. As it claims to be a 'protocol error' I also tried IMAP, but then I get the following error messages: fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from mail.epost.de fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying mail.epost.de (protocol IMAP) at Sun 30 Nov 2003 14:54:17 CET: poll completed fetchmail: Query status=7 (ERROR) fetchmail: normal termination, status 7 Any ideas or suggestions appreciated! Please reply directly to me, because I'm not subscribed to the list at the moment. Thanks Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail problem
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:52:45PM +1300, Paul William wrote: thanks, I will try that. Cheers Paul On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 00:10, David Jardine wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:27:59AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:01:45PM +1300, Paul William wrote: Hi I am running fetchmail on woody. I want fetchmail to get mail from a pop3 account and deliver to mail to two local accounts. I want both to receive all the mail - not multi-drop. Can this be done? If there's no other way, you could always fetch it twice: user james pass pass1 is jim here keep user henry pass pass2 is harry here Sorry, that should have been: user james pass pass1 is jim here keep user james pass pass1 is harry here Still not quite right: user james pass pass1 is jim here keep user james pass pass1 is harry here fetchall -- David Jardine Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it. -Sacher M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail problem
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:27:59AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:01:45PM +1300, Paul William wrote: Hi I am running fetchmail on woody. I want fetchmail to get mail from a pop3 account and deliver to mail to two local accounts. I want both to receive all the mail - not multi-drop. Can this be done? If there's no other way, you could always fetch it twice: user james pass pass1 is jim here keep user henry pass pass2 is harry here I would have thought you could just fetch it once, and deliver it to an alias: user henry pass pass2 is both here and in /etc/aliases: both: jim harry Untested, and I'm not that familiar with fetchmail; fetchmailconf did mine IIRC :-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail problem
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:42:29PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:27:59AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:01:45PM +1300, Paul William wrote: Hi I am running fetchmail on woody. I want fetchmail to get mail from a pop3 account and deliver to mail to two local accounts. I want both to receive all the mail - not multi-drop. Can this be done? If there's no other way, you could always fetch it twice: user james pass pass1 is jim here keep user henry pass pass2 is harry here I would have thought you could just fetch it once, and deliver it to an alias: user henry pass pass2 is both here and in /etc/aliases: both: jim harry Untested, and I'm not that familiar with fetchmail; fetchmailconf did mine IIRC :-) Yes, much more sensible. Actually it should be both: jim,harry -- David Jardine Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it. -Sacher M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail problem
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:01:45PM +1300, Paul William wrote: Hi I am running fetchmail on woody. I want fetchmail to get mail from a pop3 account and deliver to mail to two local accounts. I want both to receive all the mail - not multi-drop. Can this be done? If there's no other way, you could always fetch it twice: user james pass pass1 is jim here keep user henry pass pass2 is harry here -- David Jardine Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it. -Sacher M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail problem
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:27:59AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:01:45PM +1300, Paul William wrote: Hi I am running fetchmail on woody. I want fetchmail to get mail from a pop3 account and deliver to mail to two local accounts. I want both to receive all the mail - not multi-drop. Can this be done? If there's no other way, you could always fetch it twice: user james pass pass1 is jim here keep user henry pass pass2 is harry here Sorry, that should have been: user james pass pass1 is jim here keep user james pass pass1 is harry here -- David Jardine Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it. -Sacher M. -- David Jardine Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it. -Sacher M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail problem
thanks, I will try that. Cheers Paul On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 00:10, David Jardine wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:27:59AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:01:45PM +1300, Paul William wrote: Hi I am running fetchmail on woody. I want fetchmail to get mail from a pop3 account and deliver to mail to two local accounts. I want both to receive all the mail - not multi-drop. Can this be done? If there's no other way, you could always fetch it twice: user james pass pass1 is jim here keep user henry pass pass2 is harry here Sorry, that should have been: user james pass pass1 is jim here keep user james pass pass1 is harry here -- David Jardine Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it. -Sacher M. -- David Jardine Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it. -Sacher M. -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (NEW: Fetchmail problem, conf file and error text included)
- Original Message - From: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-User [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 1:41 PM Subject: Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:04:31AM -0500, BruceG wrote: Okay, I'm happily e-mailing away to friends and family, and lo and behold (fancy talk for wha wha whaat) - I find out that Yahoo pops me into the Spam block list. I know this was talked about recently (wasn't it?) - and had something to do with dynamic DNS users. What was the error message? If you're more specific, you get a better answer. Questions are: if I go for a registered domain name and still keep Dynamic service (I'm behind a DSL router and do not have a static IP) will I still be in spam jail? Do I have to go for a static IP and a registered domain name? That sounds kind of expensive! My domain's DNS is handled by dyndns.org and I don't have any problem. Right now I figure I'll send out through my ISP POP mail when mailing important stuff I don't want in Spam lists. I'd rather just SMTP out my server, though (like this e-mail). Well, if you're using exim 4, I could help you set it up so it will send through your ISP's mail relay and fetchmail to get your mail from your ISP. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the offer Paul. The problem was that I wasn't using smarthost, and Yahoo (and Hotmail) block on dial-up (and DSL) IP's. I got smarthost working thanks to info on the list and google, now that's working fine. Iam using Exim4. I have a little more work to do with Fetchmail and localhost. It was broken, then I added 127.0.0.1/32 to my allowed networks - it worked for a little bit, but is still erroring out. A fetchmail -v transaction follows: fetchmail: 6.2.4 querying mail.bellsouth.net (protocol POP3) at Sat Nov 8 13:44 :50 2003: poll started fetchmail: POP3 +OK InterMail POP3 server ready. fetchmail: POP3 CAPA fetchmail: POP3 +OK Capability list follows fetchmail: POP3 TOP fetchmail: POP3 USER fetchmail: POP3 RESP_CODES fetchmail: POP3 PIPELINING fetchmail: POP3 EXPIRE NEVER fetchmail: POP3 UIDL fetchmail: POP3 IMPLEMENTATION Openwave Email vM.5.01.06.00 201-253-122-130-200 fetchmail: POP3 21224 fetchmail: POP3 . fetchmail: POP3 USER griffisb fetchmail: POP3 +OK please send PASS command fetchmail: POP3 PASS * fetchmail: POP3 +OK griffisb is welcome here fetchmail: POP3 STAT fetchmail: POP3 +OK 93 374943 fetchmail: POP3 LAST fetchmail: POP3 +OK 0 93 messages for griffisb at mail.bellsouth.net (374943 octets). fetchmail: POP3 LIST fetchmail: POP3 +OK 93 messages fetchmail: POP3 1 3705 fetchmail: POP3 2 3378 fetchmail: POP3 3 3535 fetchmail: POP3 93 4521 . . . fetchmail: POP3 . fetchmail: POP3 TOP 1 fetchmail: POP3 +OK 3705 octets reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 of 93 (3705 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: POP3 QUIT fetchmail: POP3 thanks so much shrek~~ :) fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.bellsouth.net fetchmail: 6.2.4 querying mail.bellsouth.net (protocol POP3) at Sat Nov 8 13:44 :55 2003: poll completed fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) fetchmail: normal termination, status 10 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ec My conf file is here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/exim4$ more update-exim4.conf.conf # /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf # # Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf # yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost' dc_other_hostnames='' dc_local_interfaces='192.168.1.25' dc_readhost='' dc_relay_domains='' dc_minimaldns='false' dc_relay_nets='192.168.1.0/24:127.0.0.1/32' dc_smarthost='mail.bellsouth.net' dc_never_users='never_users = root' CFILEMODE='644' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/exim4$ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fetchmail problem
Hi I am running fetchmail on woody. I want fetchmail to get mail from a pop3 account and deliver to mail to two local accounts. I want both to receive all the mail - not multi-drop. Can this be done? Thanks very much Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fetchmail problem
Hi all, Just moved my email to a new server. All was working fine until I copied some messages directly across from my old Maildir (on the other machine). Fetchmail now reports: Sep 22 12:27:55 brain fetchmail[16218]: couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 (0 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2 (0 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3 (0 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4 (4 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:5 (24 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:6 (12 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:7 (22 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:8 (8 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:9 (103 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:10 (1 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:11 (264 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:12 (1 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:13 (3600 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message an Any ideas? I'd appreciate a cc: to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for obvious reasons. Thanks. A -- Now playing: Gordian Knot - River's Dancing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail problem
Sorted it, needed to chown the files correctly. A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail Problem!!!!
somu wrote:
socket error while fetching from mail.rediff.com
What should I do?
Rediffmail does not have POP3 service. I think that they use IMAP or
maybe even web-based services. Try picking your mails via a client
which has IMAP support. Fetchmail can bring in mails from an IMAP
server, do refer the fetchmail man-page.
If it is a web base one, try out YoSucker. It is meant to work on
Yahoo accounts.
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Re: Fetchmail Problem!!!!
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 11:45, somu wrote: Hi Friends, I am getting this error when I run fetchmail. socket error while fetching from mail.rediff.com mail server is down ? see if you can telnet to it (telnet mail.rediff.com 110) or if you can ping it. then again, i can see that this is your mail account, so how are you getting messages right now ? can you access it directly ? ((not via fetchmail) tal. What should I do? Cheers!!! Somu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail Problem!!!!
tuxsom == tuxsom somu writes: tuxsom Hi Friends, I am getting this error when I run fetchmail. tuxsom socket error while fetching from mail.rediff.com tuxsom What should I do? It sounds like you should call tech support. I notice that the host does not respond to pings, and I can't connect to the pop3 port. Try these commands below. Cheers! Shyamal shyamal@rattler:~$ telnet mail.rediff.com pop3 Trying 202.54.124.154... Trying 203.199.83.5... Trying 203.199.83.131... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out shyamal@rattler:~$ ping 203.199.83.5 PING 203.199.83.5 (203.199.83.5): 56 data bytes --- 203.199.83.5 ping statistics --- 7 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss shyamal@rattler:~$ ping 202.54.124.154 PING 202.54.124.154 (202.54.124.154): 56 data bytes --- 202.54.124.154 ping statistics --- 10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss shyamal@rattler:~$ ping 203.199.83.131 PING 203.199.83.131 (203.199.83.131): 56 data bytes --- 203.199.83.131 ping statistics --- 41 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss shyamal@rattler:~$ dig mail.rediff.com ; DiG 9.2.1 mail.rediff.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 38124 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 8, ADDITIONAL: 8 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;mail.rediff.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: mail.rediff.com.21600 IN A 202.54.124.154 mail.rediff.com.21600 IN A 203.199.83.5 mail.rediff.com.21600 IN A 203.199.83.131 [snip] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please help with sendmail-fetchmail problem
Em Tue, 4 Jun 2002 18:47:11 -0700 (PDT) Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED], conhecido consumidor de drogas (Coke e McDonald's), escreveu: re are the errors out of the syslog file: Jun 4 21:48:18 schserv fetchmail[3050]: Authorization failure on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 4 21:48:18 schserv fetchmail[3050]: Query something wrong with the password you are sending there. Anyway, suggest you to peruse (search) at www.linuxgazette.com, where you will find (kind of) tutorial on it. Also search groups.google.com and www.google.com for 'timo salmi'--- saudações, irado furioso com tudo Linux User 179402 http://www.pchrgaza.org/special/ngo%20declaration.htm http://www.indictsharon.net http://www.antiwar.com http://www.thehungersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please help with sendmail-fetchmail problem
I am running Debian Woody as up to date as I can get. I have 3 mail servers on the net that I want to get my mail onto my local machine I figure fetchmail to get the mail by pop3 and sendmail on my local server to deliver it to my local mailboxes. I keep getting error messages that refer to the inability of sendmail not finding anything in the /etc/mail/ssl directories and fetchmail cannot authenticate the mailbox user. Here are the errors out of the syslog file: Jun 4 21:48:18 schserv fetchmail[3050]: Authorization failure on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 4 21:48:18 schserv fetchmail[3050]: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL) Jun 4 21:48:24 schserv fetchmail[3050]: Authorization failure on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 4 21:48:24 schserv fetchmail[3050]: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL) Jun 4 21:50:01 schserv /USR/SBIN/CRON[3213]: (smmsp) CMD (test -x /usr/share/sendmail/sendmail /usr/share/sendmail/sendmail cron-msp) Jun 4 21:50:01 schserv sm-msp-queue[3227]: STARTTLS=client: file /etc/mail/ssl/sendmail-client.crt unsafe: No such file or directory Jun 4 21:50:01 schserv sm-msp-queue[3227]: STARTTLS=client: file /etc/mail/ssl/sendmail-common.key unsafe: No such file or directory Jun 4 21:50:01 schserv sm-msp-queue[3227]: STARTTLS=client: file /etc/mail/ssl/sendmail-server.crt unsafe: No such file or directory Jun 4 21:50:01 schserv sm-msp-queue[3227]: STARTTLS=client, error: load verify locs /etc/ssl/certs/, /etc/mail/ssl/sendmail-server.crt failed: 0 I hope someone can help me. I have put in a lot of time on this problem to no sucess Thanks for any help you can be. Brian Schramm = __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail problem
[Disclaimer: I'm no expert here, so please add salt as necessary...] On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 07:49:34PM -0700, Carl Weidling wrote: Hello, When I run my slackware distro, I'm used to using fetchmail get mail with the command: fetchmail -k --protocol POP3 -u cpw pop.rahul.net Fetchmail then asks me for a password, and gets the mail. I read it using mailx. However, when I try this from my newly installed Debian Woody distro, fetchmail spits out something like: reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:259 of 261 (3121 octets) ..fetchmail:\ SMTP error: 553 5.1.8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]\ ... Domain of sender address \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist . not flushed reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:260 of 261 (3327 octets) ..fetchmail:\ SMTP error: 553 5.1.8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]...\ Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist . not flushed Here fetchmail seems to retrieve your mail OK, but things go wrong when fetchmail hands them over to your local MTA. and there's no mail for mailx to fetch, nothing in /var/mail/cpw. I can send mail locally and it shows up in /var/mail, and can be read by mailx, but nothing from fetchmail. Right now, the only way I can read mail from my ISP in Debian is with netscape messenger. I presume that netscape is set up to talk to your ISP's smtp/(pop3|imap) server? Which MTA are you running ? (exim, sendmail etc?) From the messages, it looks like your MTA is attempting to verify that the sender's domain exists (a common anti-spam measure, I believe). But lists.debian.org *does* indeed exist :-) Time to look into your MTA config HTH -- Karl E. Jørgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.karl.jorgensen.com Please read http://www.pantsfullofunix.net before reporting bugs in my code. pgpdyJNolZ6sd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Fetchmail problem
Hello, When I run my slackware distro, I'm used to using fetchmail get mail with the command: fetchmail -k --protocol POP3 -u cpw pop.rahul.net Fetchmail then asks me for a password, and gets the mail. I read it using mailx. However, when I try this from my newly installed Debian Woody distro, fetchmail spits out something like: reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:259 of 261 (3121 octets) ..fetchmail:\ SMTP error: 553 5.1.8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]\ ... Domain of sender address \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist . not flushed reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:260 of 261 (3327 octets) ..fetchmail:\ SMTP error: 553 5.1.8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]...\ Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist . not flushed and there's no mail for mailx to fetch, nothing in /var/mail/cpw. I can send mail locally and it shows up in /var/mail, and can be read by mailx, but nothing from fetchmail. Right now, the only way I can read mail from my ISP in Debian is with netscape messenger. (I'm sending this from my ISP shell account, using mailx.) Does anybody have any ideas on what I have to do to get fetchmail to work? Regards, Carl Weidling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Another Fetchmail Problem
POP3 connection to spininternet.com failed: name is valid but has no IP address. Query status = 2 (SOCKET) hi make sure that ur pop3 incoming is spininternet.com. -jijo
Another Fetchmail Problem
fetchmail returns: POP3 connection to spininternet.com failed: name is valid but has no IP address. Query status = 2 (SOCKET) With the identical account information Mozilla retrieves the mail with no difficulty. I am trying to use fetchmail instead of Mozilla because I would like to thread the mail I receive from the debian-user list.
Fetchmail problem
Hi, I sometimes encounter the following problem. I have an router which brings my little home network online. I use an external static DNS server. But here is the problem with fetchmail and sometimes finger (unknow host). $ fetchmail -vv fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of pop.tu-ilmenau.de $ ping -c 3 pop.tu-ilmenau.de PING fddi-everest.rz.tu-ilmenau.de (141.24.248.18): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 141.24.248.18: icmp_seq=0 ttl=246 time=131.1 ms 64 bytes from 141.24.248.18: icmp_seq=1 ttl=246 time=130.0 ms 64 bytes from 141.24.248.18: icmp_seq=2 ttl=246 time=129.6 ms --- fddi-everest.rz.tu-ilmenau.de ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 129.6/130.2/131.1 ms Could it help if I install a DNS Server on the router? What could cause the problem with not finding the DNS name? Kai. -- mail | [EMAIL PROTECTED] · pgp: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · icq: 102024972 | http://www.glorybox.de/
Re: Very strange fetchmail problem
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:15:48AM +0200, thus spake Martin Fluch:
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Timmy Douglas wrote:
reading message 1 of 3 (16420 octets)
fetchmail: timeout after 60 seconds waiting for listener to respond.
I don't think your problem is with fetchmail, but with whatever is waiting
on port 25 to receive the post from fetchmail. Sendmail/Exim/Postfix
usually lurk there to receive the goods. Which MTA are you running? What do
you get if you do
$telnet localhost 25
?
I run postfix and get...
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 glynthebearded.localdomain ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Mon, 11 Dec 2000 07:18:53
+
You should get something similar if the MTA is set up properly.
HTH
Glyn M
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SOLVED: Re: Very strange fetchmail problem
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:15:48AM +0200, thus spake Martin Fluch: On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Timmy Douglas wrote: reading message 1 of 3 (16420 octets) fetchmail: timeout after 60 seconds waiting for listener to respond. I don't think your problem is with fetchmail, but with whatever is waiting on port 25 to receive the post from fetchmail. Sendmail/Exim/Postfix usually lurk there to receive the goods. Which MTA are you running? What do you get if you do $telnet localhost 25 Darn! ... I knew that it would be something like this. On Saturday libc6 was updated and it tried to restart inetd and probably failed (or something similar). Exim didn't start on port 25. Stoping and then again starting inetd (not /etc/init.d/inetd restart) did the trick. Thank you! Martin -- This is Linux Country. In a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. For public GnuPG-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Very strange fetchmail problem
Hello! since a few days I experience a quite strange problem with fetchmail on my woody system. It started with the following messages in the log files: Dec 9 16:08:47 seneca fetchmail[27142]: 15 messages for fluch at rock.helsinki.fi (39776 octets). Dec 9 16:08:47 seneca fetchmail[27142]: reading message 1 of 15 (2462 octets) Dec 9 16:13:47 seneca fetchmail[27142]: timeout after 300 seconds waiting for listener to respond. Dec 9 16:13:47 seneca fetchmail[27142]: client/server synchronization error while fetching from rock.helsinki.fi Dec 9 16:13:47 seneca fetchmail[27142]: Query status=7 (ERROR) First I thought, that it is a problem with the server and ignored the messages. But the problem remained and so I got curious. Here is the observations I made: * I get the same problems when I try to fetch mail from other POP3/IMAP servers. * I am able to successfull read my mail from rock.helsinki.fi via pine and it's IMAP capability. These two observation make me believe, that the different servers I tried are ok and that it is a problem on my side. * Different versions of fetchmail (e.g. 5.3.3-1.1 from potato and the most recent 5.5.3-1 from woody) give the same result. * I get the same problem wether I use POP3 or IMAP (rock.helsinki.fi has both, a IMAP and a POP3 server runing) My /etc/fetchmailrc file looks like: set daemon 7200 # Poll at 120-minute intervals defaults fetchall poll rock.helsinki.fi with protocol POP3: user fluch is mfluch here password foobar; Any ideas? My computer is behind a quite restrictive firewall, can this cause some problems? Martin -- This is Linux Country. In a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. For public GnuPG-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very strange fetchmail problem
try running fetchmail with verbose options and see if the output tells you any more... i would have suspected the firewall but it seems that you have already connected so i don't know how that would be the problem.
Re: Very strange fetchmail problem
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Timmy Douglas wrote: try running fetchmail with verbose options and see if the output tells you any more... i would have suspected the firewall but it seems that you have already connected so i don't know how that would be the problem. The firewall was up already for one month, but they might have changed something. But I rather don't believe in this reason, either. Martin PS: And here is the verbose output from fetchmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ /usr/bin/fetchmail -p POP3 -va -t 60 -u fluch rock.helsinki.fi Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fetchmail: 5.5.3 querying rock.helsinki.fi (protocol POP3) at Mon Dec 11 01:11:26 2000 fetchmail: POP3 +OK POP3 rock.helsinki.fi v4.47 server ready fetchmail: POP3 USER fluch fetchmail: POP3 +OK User name accepted, password please fetchmail: POP3 PASS * fetchmail: POP3 +OK Mailbox open, 3 messages fetchmail: POP3 STAT fetchmail: POP3 +OK 3 21819 3 messages for fluch at rock.helsinki.fi (21819 octets). fetchmail: POP3 LIST fetchmail: POP3 +OK Mailbox scan listing follows fetchmail: POP3 1 16420 fetchmail: POP3 2 1401 fetchmail: POP3 3 3998 fetchmail: POP3 . fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3 +OK 16420 octets reading message 1 of 3 (16420 octets) fetchmail: timeout after 60 seconds waiting for listener to respond. fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from rock.helsinki.fi fetchmail: Query status=7 (ERROR) fetchmail: SMTP QUIT fetchmail: normal termination, status 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ -- This is Linux Country. In a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. For public GnuPG-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very strange fetchmail problem
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 01:15:48 +0200 (EET), Martin Fluch [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ /usr/bin/fetchmail -p POP3 -va -t 60 -u fluch rock.helsinki.fi Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fetchmail: 5.5.3 querying rock.helsinki.fi (protocol POP3) at Mon Dec 11 01:11:26 2000 fetchmail: POP3 +OK POP3 rock.helsinki.fi v4.47 server ready fetchmail: POP3 USER fluch fetchmail: POP3 +OK User name accepted, password please fetchmail: POP3 PASS * fetchmail: POP3 +OK Mailbox open, 3 messages fetchmail: POP3 STAT fetchmail: POP3 +OK 3 21819 3 messages for fluch at rock.helsinki.fi (21819 octets). fetchmail: POP3 LIST fetchmail: POP3 +OK Mailbox scan listing follows fetchmail: POP3 1 16420 fetchmail: POP3 2 1401 fetchmail: POP3 3 3998 fetchmail: POP3 . fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3 +OK 16420 octets reading message 1 of 3 (16420 octets) fetchmail: timeout after 60 seconds waiting for listener to respond. fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from rock.helsinki.fi fetchmail: Query status=7 (ERROR) fetchmail: SMTP QUIT fetchmail: normal termination, status 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ hmm..sorry.. i'm not really sure. how many other pop3 servers have you tried?
fetchmail problem
I create .fetchmailrc file in my /home/satyajit . like this : default forcecr poll spnetctg.com with proto POP user satyajit with password fetchall and give command in root # chmod 0710 /home/satyajit/.fetchmailrc I take connection and use this command in my /home/satyajit $ fetchmail -K pop.spnetctg.com password : I give password here but fetchmail give me following error but it show me how many message in my pop server. fetchmail : SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail : SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.spnetctg.com fetchmail : Query status = 10 please help me how can I solve this problem.
Re: fetchmail problem
New Star Service Company wrote: I create .fetchmailrc file in my /home/satyajit . like this : default forcecr poll spnetctg.com with proto POP user satyajit with password fetchall and give command in root # chmod 0710 /home/satyajit/.fetchmailrc I take connection and use this command in my /home/satyajit $ fetchmail -K pop.spnetctg.com password : I give password here but fetchmail give me following error but it show me how many message in my pop server. fetchmail : SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail : SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.spnetctg.com fetchmail : Query status = 10 please help me how can I solve this problem. I think that the problem is not with fetchmail: fetchmail get's you mail from the POP server, but fails to deliver it to your local MTA (sendmail/exim/postfix/qmail/whatever). I had this problem before... I had to remove a smtpd package (IIRC) and change a thing in sendmail configuration... I know this isn't much help, but at least you know where the problem is (if I'm right, that is :) ). yours, fsm -- Frederico Serrano Muñoz GNU: http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian: http://www.debian.org SDF - Public Access Unix Systems - http://sdf.lonestar.org
Re: fetchmail problem
yes, I just had this problem too. Be sure we're on the page by doing the following: telnet localhost 25 if the connection is refused or similar, smtp is not running. To solve the problem I installed sendmail (I know it better than exim): apt-get install sendmail do the configs, I'm not sure how you get service so it's tough to say too much. One issue that I had was that mail is received at my isp at beerdrinker.org but when I receive it sendmail wants to send it back, so I modified my /etc/hosts file to add beerdrinker.org to the 127.0.0.1 line. Kludgy though, cuz now I can't send mail properly to beerdrinker.org. Pretty sure that there is a configuration for sendmail that I can set that will unbreak this...but it works for now. rick Frederico S. Muñoz writes: New Star Service Company wrote: I create .fetchmailrc file in my /home/satyajit . like this : default forcecr poll spnetctg.com with proto POP user satyajit with password fetchall and give command in root # chmod 0710 /home/satyajit/.fetchmailrc I take connection and use this command in my /home/satyajit $ fetchmail -K pop.spnetctg.com password : I give password here but fetchmail give me following error but it show me how many message in my pop server. fetchmail : SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail : SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.spnetctg.com fetchmail : Query status = 10 please help me how can I solve this problem. I think that the problem is not with fetchmail: fetchmail get's you mail from the POP server, but fails to deliver it to your local MTA (sendmail/exim/postfix/qmail/whatever). I had this problem before... I had to remove a smtpd package (IIRC) and change a thing in sendmail configuration... I know this isn't much help, but at least you know where the problem is (if I'm right, that is :) ). yours, fsm -- Frederico Serrano Muñoz GNU: http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian: http://www.debian.org SDF - Public Access Unix Systems - http://sdf.lonestar.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- A picture is worth about 25000 characters. Any more and it takes too long to download.
Re: Fetchmail problem: long pauses
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 09:44:35AM +0100, Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In the last few days I have a problem with fetchmail. It has slowed down dramatically. At each ISP mailserver I connect to the following happens: Fetchmail starts to read the first message and says it is rewriting various addresses. It then hang for about 3 minutes before starting to collect all the mail. This goes normally but the same thing happens at the next ISP. Using the -vv switch doesn't show any errors. I think something must be misconfigured but what? I don't remember changing anything. Network related 3-5 minute hangs tend to make me suspect DNS issues. Anything in your system logs? -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpbc56DQXGQy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Fetchmail problem: long pauses
In the last few days I have a problem with fetchmail. It has slowed down dramatically. At each ISP mailserver I connect to the following happens: Fetchmail starts to read the first message and says it is rewriting various addresses. It then hang for about 3 minutes before starting to collect all the mail. This goes normally but the same thing happens at the next ISP. Using the -vv switch doesn't show any errors. I think something must be misconfigured but what? I don't remember changing anything. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/ Skeptical articles: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/freethinker/ Palo y tente tieso. (Spanish proverb) Free translation: Holdfast is your only dog.
[OFFTOPIC] small fetchmail problem with popsneaker
I have no problems retrieving mail with fetchmail, but when I try to do this in conjunction with popsneaker, fetchmail issues these complaints: (d3) Connected to postoffice.myisp.com (d3) Disconnected from postoffice.myisp.com fetchmail: pre-connection command failed with status 256 fetchmail: Query status=5 (SYNTAX) the pertinent .fetchmailrc lines are: poll mercury.myisp.net with proto POP3 user pollywog password mypasswdhere preconnect /usr/local/bin/popsneaker --only mercury.myisp.net to pollywog and the .popsneakerrc lines: popserver mercury.myisp.net pollywog mypassword Does anyone know what the problem might be? thanks -- Andrew
Re: [OFFTOPIC] small fetchmail problem with popsneaker - SOLVED :)
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 19:27:56 + Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no problems retrieving mail with fetchmail, but when I try to do this in conjunction with popsneaker, fetchmail issues these complaints: Nevermind folks All of a sudden, it hit me what I had done incorrectly and I fixed it. -- Andrew
Re: Sendmail and fetchmail problem
On Sep 15, staf wagemakers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:14:49PM -0400, John Ackermann wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], staf wagemakers writes: You could add the next line to your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains) I regularly see domain must resolve messages in my logs, usually from random sites Out There. Is there a significant security/spam risk in accepting unresolvable domains? I have the antispam stuff (no relaying, etc.) turned on in my sendmail.mc already. Normally you don't want to accept mail from non-valid domains, all from addresses should have a valid internet address. I don't think your mailserver get a open relay by enabling this feature but I wouldn't use it on a mailserver that is connected to the internet. You can't reply to message because it comes from a non-existing domain, so why would you waste time to read it :) I agree with all of the above, but have an answer to the last question :-) If you are retrieving mail from your ISP via fetchmail and sendmail, presumably the domains were resolved by your ISP's MTA. So, why bother resolving them again? I get mail this way on my laptop, and I don't want to have some message not delivered to my laptop because the sender's domain temporarily cannot resolve. -- Neil L. Roeth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail and fetchmail problem
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], staf wagemakers writes: You could add the next line to your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains) I regularly see domain must resolve messages in my logs, usually from random sites Out There. Is there a significant security/spam risk in accepting unresolvable domains? I have the antispam stuff (no relaying, etc.) turned on in my sendmail.mc already. John Ackermann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail and fetchmail problem
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:14:49PM -0400, John Ackermann wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], staf wagemakers writes: You could add the next line to your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains) I regularly see domain must resolve messages in my logs, usually from random sites Out There. Is there a significant security/spam risk in accepting unresolvable domains? I have the antispam stuff (no relaying, etc.) turned on in my sendmail.mc already. Normally you don't want to accept mail from non-valid domains, all from addresses should have a valid internet address. I don't think your mailserver get a open relay by enabling this feature but I wouldn't use it on a mailserver that is connected to the internet. You can't reply to message because it comes from a non-existing domain, so why would you waste time to read it :) -- Staf Wagemakers email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage : http://www.digibel.org/~staf
Sendmail and fetchmail problem
Hi all, We are migrating to a new mailserver and I would like to download all my messages from the old server to localmail. To do so I am using fechmail with this config file: - set syslog poll mi.imap.server protocol imap: user Jorge Ortiz is jorge password Something-here - When I run fetchmail with the -a flag, I get the following messages in my syslog: Sep 14 12:51:52 hpspsabc fetchmail[11594]: SMTP 451 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender domain must resolve Sep 14 12:51:52 hpspsabc fetchmail[11594]: SMTP RSET Sep 14 12:51:52 hpspsabc fetchmail[11594]: SMTP 250 Reset state Sep 14 12:51:52 hpspsabc fetchmail[11594]: SMTP error: 250 Reset state How can this be solved? Thanks in advance, Jorge P.S.: Please reply also to my email address.
Sendmail and fetchmail problem
Hi all, We are migrating to a new mailserver and I would like to download all my messages from the old server to localmail. To do so I am using fechmail with this config file: - set syslog poll mi.imap.server protocol imap: user Jorge Ortiz is jorge password Something-here - When I run fetchmail with the -a flag, I get the following messages in my syslog: Sep 14 12:51:52 hpspsabc fetchmail[11594]: SMTP 451 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender domain must resolve Sep 14 12:51:52 hpspsabc fetchmail[11594]: SMTP RSET Sep 14 12:51:52 hpspsabc fetchmail[11594]: SMTP 250 Reset state Sep 14 12:51:52 hpspsabc fetchmail[11594]: SMTP error: 250 Reset state How can this be solved? Thanks in advance, Jorge P.S.: Please reply also to my email address.
Re: Sendmail and fetchmail problem
Organization: Hewett Packard ^ you're really sure, that this is correct? ;-) not that i would care much ... in regard to your question: maybe adding the host to /etc/hosts would help - at least the server from the log does not exist in the world-accessible dns, what could cause the problem. regards -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. -- Become part of the world's biggest computer cluster - join http://www.distributed.net/
Re: Sendmail and fetchmail problem
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:20:01PM +0200, Jorge David Ortiz Fuentes wrote: Hi all, We are migrating to a new mailserver and I would like to download all my messages from the old server to localmail. To do so I am using fechmail with this config file: - set syslog poll mi.imap.server protocol imap: user Jorge Ortiz is jorge password Something-here - When I run fetchmail with the -a flag, I get the following messages in my syslog: Sep 14 12:51:52 hpspsabc fetchmail[11594]: SMTP 451 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender domain must resolve Sep 14 12:51:52 hpspsabc fetchmail[11594]: SMTP RSET Sep 14 12:51:52 hpspsabc fetchmail[11594]: SMTP 250 Reset state Sep 14 12:51:52 hpspsabc fetchmail[11594]: SMTP error: 250 Reset state How can this be solved? I don't remember this properly, but I thank I got this errors too. This is caused by sendmail, not fetchmail. Try disabling the DNS feature of sendmail in /etc/mail/something... and then verifying your /etc/resolv.conf is well configured. Suerte! Thanks in advance, Jorge P.S.: Please reply also to my email address. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://jmmv.cjb.net
Re: Sendmail and fetchmail problem
Hey, didn't you hear - they split the company and the l went to Agilent! ;-) --On Thursday, September 14, 2000 15:35 +0200 Oswald Buddenhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Organization: Hewett Packard ^ you're really sure, that this is correct? ;-) not that i would care much ... in regard to your question: maybe adding the host to /etc/hosts would help - at least the server from the log does not exist in the world-accessible dns, what could cause the problem. regards -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. -- Become part of the world's biggest computer cluster - join http://www.distributed.net/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Sendmail and fetchmail problem
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:20:01PM +0200, Jorge David Ortiz Fuentes wrote: When I run fetchmail with the -a flag, I get the following messages in my syslog: Sep 14 12:51:52 hpspsabc fetchmail[11594]: SMTP 451 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender domain must resolve Sep 14 12:51:52 hpspsabc fetchmail[11594]: SMTP RSET Sep 14 12:51:52 hpspsabc fetchmail[11594]: SMTP 250 Reset state Sep 14 12:51:52 hpspsabc fetchmail[11594]: SMTP error: 250 Reset state How can this be solved? You could add the next line to your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains) rebuild sendmail.cf and restart sendmail. Other possibilities are create a valid dns record for imap.server.hp.com, update /etc/hosts ... regards, -- Staf Wagemakers email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage : http://www.digibel.org/~staf
Fetchmail problem
Just recently installed 2.1. Standalone box with dialout ppp net connection. Running fetchmail and sendmail. The .fetchmailrc file says 'set daemon 600' but the daemon keeps dying on me so I have to manually do it over and over. I have used fetchmail on my previous system (SuSE) and have not encountered this before. I tried 'fetchmail -N ' (following some esr open-source advice) at the command line but it fares no better. Anyone have any idea what might be going on here? Thanks. Phil
Re: Fetchmail problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just recently installed 2.1. Standalone box with dialout ppp net connection. Running fetchmail and sendmail. The .fetchmailrc file says 'set daemon 600' but the daemon keeps dying on me so I have to manually do it over and over. I have used fetchmail on my previous system (SuSE) and have not encountered this before. I tried 'fetchmail -N ' (following some esr open-source advice) at the command line but it fares no better. Anyone have any idea what might be going on here? Thanks. Phil Have you tried 'fetchmail -av' from the command line? kent
fetchmail problem
Thanks for all the help, people. Your advice about how to fix the clock problem was spot on. Now, another query. If I do a fetchmail and it reports, say, 30 mails, sometimes these mails can be transfered to my spool file in batches. So, I get the first ten and then I have to wait a few minutes for the next ten. I guess that there must be an explicit delay somewhere. Does anyone know where this delay might be? Cordially Tim
Re: fetchmail problem
*- On 8 Jan, Timothy Bedding wrote about fetchmail problem Thanks for all the help, people. Your advice about how to fix the clock problem was spot on. Now, another query. If I do a fetchmail and it reports, say, 30 mails, sometimes these mails can be transfered to my spool file in batches. So, I get the first ten and then I have to wait a few minutes for the next ten. I guess that there must be an explicit delay somewhere. Does anyone know where this delay might be? This is your MTA doing this. Most MTA's don't like getting flooded with requests to send packages since it can cause a spike in cpu load and system resources. So once a maximum limit has been reached it just queues them up until the next run of the queue. In exim, the default MTA for Debian, you can set the option smt_accept_queue_per_connection to 0 and it will process each mail as it comes in without waiting. The default is 10. Read the exim spec file for more info on this and other smtp_accept_* options. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
newbie fetchmail problem
hi, i'm very new to linux. recently i got my ppp-connection working, now i have a problem with fetchmail. whenever i start fetchmail i got this message: 62 messages for johannes-tax at pop.styria.com (156274 octets). reading message 1 of 62 (1857 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' fetchmail: can't even send to postmaster! fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.styria.com fetchmail: Query status=10 first i tried fetchmailconf and it didn't work, then i configured my .fetchmailrc by hand. it looks like this: poll pop.styria.com proto pop3 user johannes-tax pass mysecret is pox here what's wrong with it? i would be happy if anybody could help me. Thanks
Re: newbie fetchmail problem
*- On 7 Jan, Johannes Tax wrote about newbie fetchmail problem hi, i'm very new to linux. recently i got my ppp-connection working, now i have a problem with fetchmail. whenever i start fetchmail i got this message: 62 messages for johannes-tax at pop.styria.com (156274 octets). reading message 1 of 62 (1857 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' fetchmail: can't even send to postmaster! fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.styria.com fetchmail: Query status=10 first i tried fetchmailconf and it didn't work, then i configured my .fetchmailrc by hand. it looks like this: poll pop.styria.com proto pop3 user johannes-tax pass mysecret is pox here what's wrong with it? i would be happy if anybody could help me. This isn't a fetchmail problem. It is your MTA that does not recognized the machine name 'localhost' as actually being your local machine and is thus refusing to deliver the mail that fetchmail is feeding it over the SMTP port. For exim the option is local_domains and is a colon separated list of machine names that considered local. My local machine is called(fake name on localnet) brian.servis.snet so I have the following: local_domains=localhost:servis.brian.snet:servis.snet:brian This works for me, I don't know if it is all necessary but you do need the localhost and actual machine name in there. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
