On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 02:50:06AM +0000, Deniz Dogan wrote: > Hi, > > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Welcome in the club, you are using smail 3.2.0.100-x, don't you? > > No. 3.2.0.92-3. I`m using bo.
Oh. It would have been soo easy to downgrade ;) > After trying some configurations with smailconfig I managed to sent > mail. Good. > But ftechmail still doesn`t work, It`s a general problem I think, as I > wrote > in my previous post telneting to the localhost doesn`t work also. > Connection > is refused. Any ideas? This is really strange. Sorry, I'm no expert here... > > looks ok. You can try to give fetchmail the dma option and use procmail. I > > I tried that: (procmail 3.10.4-2) > > $fetchmail -v -k -m "/usr/bin/procmail" > > It worked but elm (2.4pl25ME+31-5) complained that the folder is > corrupted. Man > page says: > > If running suid root or with root privileges, procmail > will be able to perform as a functionally enhanced, back > wards compatible mail delivery agent. > > Isn`t it possible to run as a non-root user? It has already the correct permissions, at least here: flora$ ls -l 'which procmail' -rwsr-sr-x 1 root mail 56224 Jan 31 20:45 /usr/bin/procmail* I have "/usr/bin/procmail -f-" as option to fetchmail, perhaps this helps? > Is there any other options to use as MDA? Preferably, how can I solve > `connection > refuse` problem? Sorry, don't know. Try to look hard at the various files in /etc, as /etc/hosts*, /etc/resolv.conf etc... 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] .
