On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 07:11:28PM -0800, Gary Schenk wrote:
> Thanks to the readers of this group I can now send mail with Pine.
>
> I am doing something wrong with my fetchmail configuration, however. I am
> not even sure where to start troubleshooting.
>
> My .fetchmail.log file reads, in part:
>
> fetchmail: sleeping at Sun Jan 19 2003
> fetchmail: 43 messages for gwschenk at orangca-mls05.socal.rr.com (17784
> octets)
> fetchmail: reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> fetchmail: fetchmail: getaddrinfo(localhost.smtp)
> fetchmail: SMTP connection to localhost failed
> fetchmail: transaction error while fetching from pop-server.socal.rr.com
> fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
Fetchmail will often give those errors, but fetch the mail correctly.
I'm not really familiar with pine, but if you're using procmail as the
mail delivery agent, you need a line like
mda "/usr/loca/bin/procmail -d %T" in your .fetchmailrc.
However, assuming that you're not using sendmail, postfix or another
heavyduty agent, you'll still get those errors (though it will
successfully deliver the mail).
You might want to consider using getmail instead. FWIW, I've found that
it seems to work better. I threw up a page on it, mostly as a reminder
to myself that might be useful at
http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/getmail.html
HTH
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