Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 00:05:47 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <12635750246.20020503000547@familiehaase.de> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: advise on using fetchmail In-Reply-To: <20020430161810.GA596@tishler.net> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020430131222.02b142f0@firkin.mmebs.co.uk> <20020430161810.GA596@tishler.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jason schrieb: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:09:44PM +0100, Mark Cooke wrote: >> fetchmail -u mark >> >> results in this error all the time: >> >> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed >> fetchmail: can't raise the listener; falling back to >> /usr/local/bin/procmail -d %T > I have never seen the above error message. I get this always when my SMTP server is not available. My fetchmail falls back to /usr/sbin/sendmail ... then as I'm not using procmail. It is not a real error, it is normal if you have procmail support compiled in and no SMTP daemon is running. Use the config settings from Jason to override the search for a SMTP daemon on the localhost. > I have been successful using the the following .fetchmailrc file: > set logfile /var/log/fetchmail.log > set invisible # suppress "Received:" line fetchmail adds > set no bouncemail > poll "my.server.net" # *** change as appropriate *** > protocol pop3 > username "MyUserName" # *** change as appropriate *** > password "MyPassword" # *** change as appropriate *** > fetchall > nokeep # delete successfully received > messages > mda "/usr/local/bin/procmail -d %T" # pass message to the local MDA > Is your .fetchmailrc file similar to the above? -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/