Is there some incantation with fetchmail that has it just get the mail and dump it in a file or maildir withOUT folding, spindling or mutilating it?
Fetchmail always scared the shit out of me the way it works. I just don't trust it. Peter Hardy wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 11:59, henry wrote: > >>I used "fetchmail -p POP3 zinwell.com.tw" to fetch my mails from mail-server >(zinwell.com.tw) >>but I get message as follows: >> >>2 messages for henry at zinwell.com.tw (1257 octets). >>reading message 1 of 2 (632 octets) >> >>fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed > > > The first thing fetchmail does is try to connect to a mail server you're > running locally. This message means it can't find one. You don't have > a mail server (like sendmail) installed, or it's not running. > > >>fetchmail: can't raise the listener; >> falling back to $procmail -d %Tsh: -d: command not found > > > The next thing it tries to do is give the mail directly to a delivery > agent. The default is procmail. I'm guessing you're getting this > because procmail also isn't installed, or it isn't in your path. > > >>fetchmail: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error >>fetchmail: socket error while fetching from zinwell.com.tw >>fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) >>fetchmail: terminated with signal 13 >> >>But it's quite normal to read these 2 msgs from OutLook(Win98). >>Could you give some advice to analysis the error-report ? > > > Fetchmail is getting mail from the remote server OK, but it runs out of > ways to deliver it. Probably the easiest way to solve would be to > install procmail. > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
