On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 11:59:20PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > > > Xdefer: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> reason: (ERR175) host retry file locked > > And if I do "rm /var/spool/smail/retry/smtp/localhost", I get these in > > the msglogs. > > Xdefer: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> reason: (ERR148) transport smtp: connect: > > Connection refused > > Ok. I've narrowed it down -- smail doesn't like mail addressed to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- if I tell fetchmail to use procmail as the delivery
(how can you do this - using procmail in fetchmailrc ?) > agent, everything is fine, but otherwise sendmail seems to send itself > into infinite loops trying to deliver to "localhost" and then it just > returns "too many hops" errors. > > Sometimes it doesn't seem to be listening on port 25, either ... <telnet > localhost 25> works sometimes, other times I get "connection refused" > errors. Same when I try to connect directly to port 25 from a remote > hosts ... sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Hello! I have a similar problem with newest smail+procmail+fetchmail. I have this in my /etc/smail/transports: local: return_path, local, from, driver=pipe; user=root, cmd="/usr/bin/procmail -d $($user$)" and fetchmail does need *hours* to download a few hundred mails (actually, smail needs most of the time. It tries to verificate the mail headers, which takes about three seconds per mail. This is nasty! as it processes the mail consecutive) Any Help is appreciatet, thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .