On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 17:36, Chris Concannon wrote: > I'm running woody on my desktop machine and I'm running into problems > trying to get email working. I want to get my email with fetchmail, read > it with mutt, and send it with exim. I'm on a network link at my > university and my IP address isn't going to change all year. > > Fetchmail and exim do not seem to want to play nicely together. To try > and test my setup, I've been sending emails from Mozilla 0.9.5 (what I > am writing this in right now) from my university address to another > address I have at a hosting provider. Fetchmail seems to download it > just fine. It is flushing the message and reporting something along the > lines of "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is valid syntax" before passing it to the > SMTP server. The actual address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], and as you'll > see, I think I have my /etc/email-addresses file setup to properly > understand this. >
<snip> > poll mail160.pair.com with proto IMAP > user 'rubicant' there is 'rubicant' here > > poll mail.rochester.edu with proto POP3 > user 'cc004k' there is 'cc004k' here > > poll troi.cc.rochester.edu with proto POP3 > user 'u3csc171' there is 'u3csc171' here > > poll mail.maine.rr.com with proto POP3 > user 'jmc' there is 'jmc' here > <snip> Do rubicant, cc004k, u3csc171, and jmc all exist as users? If not you are going to need either to change fetchmail to point to "you" in your here directives or edit /etc/aliases to point all of these names to yourself. /etc/email-addresses is for outbound, alises is for inbound. --mike
