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.
Re: newbie fetchmail problem
Johannes Tax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 [..] what's wrong with it? i would be happy if anybody could help me. Does the user pox exist on your computer ? What the result of sending a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? If you are using sendmail put a line like the folowing in your alias file (/etc/alises) and run the newaliases command to rebuild the alias database. postmaster: root (or pox if it's your user) If you are using qmail put your email in the file ~alias/.qmail-postmaster. The postmaster adress MUST exist on every host connected to the Internet. -- Francois Deppierraz student http://www.ctrlaltdel.ch ICQ: 176 770 09
Re: newbie fetchmail problem
Subject: Re: newbie fetchmail problem Date: Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 08:51:18AM -0500 In reply to:Brian Servis Quoting Brian Servis([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | *- On 7 Jan, Johannes Tax wrote about newbie fetchmail problem [snip] | 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. The line that Brian listed is found in /etc/exim.conf, and assumes you are, in fact, using exim as your MTA. Exim is the default MTA for Debian, i believe. -- All computers wait at the same speed. ___
newbie fetchmail problem THANKS
thanks for your help! i only had to change the local_domains-line in my exim.conf. now everything works fine. johannes
