Mail Server (progress)

[David McGlone]

On Wednesday 24 October 2007 8:38:16 pm Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 October 2007, David McGlone wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 October 2007 5:23:30 pm Jordi Ferrando Fabra wrote:

> feetchmail has to hand off the mail it fetches to someone.....    I use
> procmail...  but I think it will hand off to your mailer (postfix or
> sendmail) if you don't specify how to process your mail.
>
>
> Here is my fetchmailrc that I always hand edit.
>
> I run fetchmail as root on my mailserver....  (they suggest not to but what
> the heck)
> =====================================
> #fetchall
> #no rewrite
> #keep
> #
>
> set daemon 300
> set logfile /var/log/fetchmail
> defaults
> proto pop3
>
> mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f %F -d %T "
> fetchall
>
> poll pop.<my-isp>.com
> user m40344-xxxxxcom    pass <pswd>
> user m4044-bmarshxxxx      pass <pswd>
> user m404-bmarshyyyy    pass <pswd>
> user m444-katrinazzzzzz  pass <pswd>
>
> ===============================================
> Of course, passwords and userids have been changed.

Wow, this is getting to be crazy. A simple task turns into a nightmare almost.

Ok so far, I *think* I have fetchmail working, it seems to be retrieving my 
mail, but heck I can't find the mail anywhere. When I look in /var/mail it 
says there are messages for dmcglone but when I try to read them they 
disappear like Chris Angel :-)

Here is what I'm getting when I fetchmail:

fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> USER d.mcglone at att.net
fetchmail: POP3< +OK password required.
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK maildrop ready, 1 message (2136 octets) (2136 2793930752)
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 2136
fetchmail: POP3> LAST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0
1 message for d.mcglone at att.net at AT&T (2136 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 1754
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1754 octets
reading message d.mcglone at att.net@pop-sbc.mail.yahoo4.akadns.net:1 of 1 (1754 
octets)
#*** not flushed
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK server signing off.
fetchmail: 6.3.8 querying AT&T (protocol POP3) at Thu 25 Oct 2007 02:35:26 PM 
EDT: poll completed
fetchmail: normal termination, status 0

after I checked mail, I looked in mailbox and indeed there was 1 message, when 
I chose to read it, viola it did an amazing disappear act and said there was 
no mail in inbox.

-- 
David M.