fetchmail and gmail and ssl

Admin admin at enabled.com
Mon Jul 20 19:25:42 UTC 2009


Jay Daniels wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 13:23 -0700, Admin wrote:
>> Jay
>>
>> my procmail is In place
>>
>> $ cat .procmailrc
>> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH
>> HOME=/home/username
>> MAILIN=$HOME/mail
>> DEFAULT=/var/mail/username
>> #MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
>> #LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from
>> LOCKFILE=/var/mail/username.lock
>> NULL=/dev/null
>>
>> :0fw: spamassassin.lock
>> | /usr/bin/spamc
>>
>> :0
>> * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
>> $MAILIN/Spam
>>
>>
>> but look what is happening for Local mail delivery.  I get the
>> following 
>> error:
>>
>>
>> I am using fetchmail to pop3 mail from gmail.  But when I receive
>> email
>> I find that fetchmail is using postfix to deliver the mail to the
>> corresponding internal mailbox.  postfix responds with the following
>> error and best I can tell the mail never ends up in my inbox.  Looks
>> like localhost is considered 10.11.12.13.  The error message,
>> /etc/hosts, and postconf -n are below.
>>
>>
>> Here is the error message:
>>
>> ---- snip ----
>>
>> <username at localhost>: delivery temporarily suspended: connect to
>>      localhost[10.11.12.13]:25: Connection timed out
> 
> 
>> DEFAULT=/var/mail/username
>> #MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
> 
> 
> #Change it...
> MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail     #No trailing slash no matter what
> DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox     #No trailing slash if mbox
> LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/.procmail.log
> 
> I assume you want mbox format?  I think you better make sure ~/Mail
> exist.  You could change mbox to any name you wish like $LOGNAME
> 
> 
> 
> jay d.

nope I am running Mailbox style on this account.  everything stays as is 
in the configuration file.

Cheers,
Noah





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