On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:26:25 +0200 Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Mo, den 20.06.2005 schrieb Richard E Miles um 19:05: > > > I have been trying to setup my local machine to receive mail from comcast. The > > setup uses fetchmail, procmail, and sendmail. The log file > > /var/log/maillog shows: > > Jun 20 09:31:02 localhost fetchmail[3155]: starting fetchmail 6.2.5 daemon > > Jun 20 09:31:06 localhost fetchmail[3155]: 175 messages for r.godzilla at mail.comcast.net (860187 octets). > > Jun 20 09:31:06 localhost fetchmail[3155]: reading message r.godzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:1 of 175 (3975 octets) > > Jun 20 09:36:06 localhost fetchmail[3155]: timeout after 300 seconds waiting for listener to respond. > > Jun 20 09:36:06 localhost fetchmail[3155]: socket error while delivering to SMTP host mail.comcast.net > > Jun 20 09:36:06 localhost fetchmail[3155]: Query status=2 (SOCKET) > > Jun 20 09:36:06 localhost fetchmail[3155]: sleeping at Mon 20 Jun 2005 09:36:06 AM PDT > > Jun 20 09:37:36 localhost fetchmail[3155]: awakened at Mon 20 Jun 2005 09:37:36 AM PDT > > Jun 20 09:37:40 localhost fetchmail[3155]: 176 messages for r.godzilla at mail.comcast.net (865216 octets). > > Jun 20 09:37:40 localhost fetchmail[3155]: reading message r.godzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:1 of 176 (3975 octets) > > > > poll mail.comcast.net with proto POP3 and options no dns > > user 'r.godzilla' with pass "password" is 'rmiles' here keep > > smtphost comcast.net > > .oO You know what "smtphost" means as a fetchmailrc setting? Look at > "man fetchmail" - it does not do what you think it does. Or if you > really named your lokal host "comcast.net" with according DNS > resolution, you then broke more than fetchmail. > > > expunge 1 > > > Richard E Miles > > Alexander > > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 > legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html > Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.27_FC2smp > Serendipity 19:23:46 up 27 days, 18:01, load average: 0.33, 0.21, 0.18 > Thankyou Alexander. I removed the smpthost reference from the .fetchmailrc file. It now looks like it is working. -- Richard E Miles Federal Way Wa. USA Registered linux user 46097
