Am Di, den 07.12.2004 schrieb Timothy Murphy um 3:19: > At present I get email directly on my laptop > in /var/spool/mail/* through uucp. > I'd like to get the email on the same directory > on my desktop (alfred), and then run a mail server on the destop > and collect the email on my laptop (william) > (or on other computers on my two little home LANs, ethernet and WiFi). > I am able to access my desktop with telnet from my laptop: > ============================================ > [tim@william ~]$ telnet alfred 143 > Trying 192.168.1.1... > Connected to alfred. > Escape character is '^]'. > * OK dovecot ready. So the IMAP server runs. > Unfortunately, neither fetchmail not KMail on my laptop > seem able to retrieve mail from my desktop. > > With fetchmail I get the error message: > ============================================ > [tim@william ~]$ fetchmail alfred > fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain != alfred > fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain != alfred This would indicate certificate usage. > 10 messages for tim at alfred. > reading message tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:1 of 10 (765 header octets) fetchmail: > fetchmail: getaddrinfo(localhost.smtp) > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from alfred > fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) fetchmail tries to pass the fetched mail over to the local SMTP, but none is listening. > My .fetchmailrc on william reads > ============================================ > poll alfred > proto IMAP > user "tim" password "whatever" If you want to deliver the fetched mail directly to a file you will have to use an additional line like mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f" > I have no better luck trying to retrieve mail with KMail on the laptop, > after adding the following entry to > KMail=>Settings=>Configure KMail=>Network=>Receiving With KMail I have no experience. > When I start KMail on william I get the message > "Checking account dovecot for new mail", > but no mail comes over, > and I see no error in the log files on either machine > (although I may have missed something there). KMail has a log file about it's processing? google doesn't come over with something handy. > Apologies for the long message; > any suggestions of advice gratefully received. You don't have to excuse for a long message. As you provide good structured details it makes it easier to find causes for trouble and possibly a way out. > Timothy Murphy Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | new address - new key: 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp Serendipity 04:00:03 up 1 day, 3:22, load average: 0.18, 0.32, 0.27
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