On Friday 10 November 2006 08:16, James Wilkinson wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> 3. A ps -ea|grep fetchmail says its running, but like heyu, its not >> generating its separate log, and neither is procmail which is also >> keeping its own logfile, both of those configs copied from a perfectly >> working FC2 system. But no mail is coming in that I can find. So I may >> have to fire up x on the firewall and suck mail with it for a bit. >> >> Now lets see if it can find the server at vz and send this... > >Well, it made it out... > >One idea -- are you using IPv6? (If you don't know, you probably aren't). > >If you run > >telnet 127.0.0.1 smtp > >do you get a response? Something like: > >Connected to localhost. >Escape character is '^]'. >220 hostname ESMTP Sendmail ... > Yup. >If you do, then sendmail is running. (It looks like you're running >sendmail...) Enter "quit" to leave sendmail. If not, you need to >investigate Sendmail. > >If you run > >telnet localhost smtp > But this fails due to the echo being on so I get two ^ for oen, and the rest fails. I had to do a killall telnet. >do you get the same response? If not, then sendmail isn't listening on >the IPv6 loopback address -- in FC6, by default, localhost points to ::1, >the IPv6 loopback address. One simple way of fixing this is to edit >/etc/hosts and change ::1 to 127.0.0.1. > >How are you running fetchmail -- are you putting stuff in /etc/init.d, >running it from /etc/rc.d/rc.local, manually, from crontab, whatever? No, its running from an unpriviledged user account, as is procmal and SA. And once I'd found where procmail was putting the mail, or tryiung to, and changed the perms of that target in /var/spool, its all working. > >What happens if you run the appropriate local equivalent of >fetchmail -v --fetchmailrc /etc/fetchmailrc > >You're not using the --smtphost, -S, smtphost or smtp keywords anywhere, >are you? No. >Hope this helps, > >James. Thanks for the reply James. > >-- >E-mail: james@ | [The Child Support Agency] spent $500M on a computer >aprilcottage.co.uk | system from EDS that did not work. The solution? > Give EDS > > | $250M more to fix the broken system. I'm sure we can > | all recognise the two simple errors made there. -- > | Geoff Lane -- Cheers, Gene
