fetchmail problem

[Holmes, Steve]

Gee, I run fetchmail from my root account all the time and successfully
fetch mail from my ISP and toss it into different user accounts I have
established on my local system.  In fact, I have a crontab entry run it
every two hours for me in the background.  It works great.  Just be sure
sendmail is setup ok so when fetchmail brings in a piece of mail, it knows
what to do with it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Watson, Keith [mailto:kwatson at grtk.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 1:26 PM
To: 'speakup at braille.uwo.ca'
Subject: RE: fetchmail problem


Jacob,

Not sure if this will help but I had the same problem with mine. I had to
create a local account with the same name as the one on my ISP's. Otherwise
it would just sit there. If this helps, hey my first one, if not oh well im
still learning, grins.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob Schmude [mailto:jacobs at ncinter.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 2:28 PM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: OT: fetchmail problem


Hi all
     This is slightly off topic, but maybe someone on here can answer it.
This one's got me stumped.
     Fetchmail will not deliver any mail from my ISP to my local system. I
type fetchmail, and I'm connected to the server. I get the message reading
message 1 of 10 (or how many I've got) and then the number of octets in
the header. Then, though, fetchmail appears frozen. It reads no more, it
just sits there, and ctrl-c is the only thing that terminates it. I'm
thinking it's got something to do with sendmail, which is the SMTP agent
that is provided with slackware. I'm still able to read mail by having
pine read it from my ISP's IMAP server, but it's a bit slow that way.
Any ideas? I've gone through the sendmail reconfiguration and still no
good.




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