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/
