On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:21:14AM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > This is the output: > > fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting to connect to server > mail.hellrot.org. > fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from > mail.hellrot.org > 188 messages for hazmat/hellrot.org at mail.hellrot.org (896055 octets). > reading message 1 of 188 (3155 octets) ... not flushed > reading message 2 of 188 (3114 octets) ... not flushed > reading message 3 of 188 (43642 > octets) .......................................... not flushed
Well, this all looks normal (except for the timeout/sync errors, which seem to have cleared themselves up). (Hellrot, eh?) What do the exim logs say? Check /var/log/mail.log, /var/log/exim/mainlog. There should be two entries in /var/log/exim/mainlog for each message: one describing reception from fetchmail, one describing disposition. Here's an example pair: 2002-01-22 23:28:27 16TF1P-0006TC-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=localhost [127.0.0.1] U=bjb P=esmtp S=3512 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-01-22 23:28:28 16TF1P-0006TC-00 => |IFS=' ' && p=/usr/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- || exit 75 #bjb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D=userforward T=address_pipe Here we see I got a message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 23:28 local time, and it was piped to my procmail (via .forward). Do you get such messages? Do you have a $HOME/.forward file? While you are running fetchmail, do you see an exim process showing up to deliver the messages? It will probably only happen for the first 10 messages (assuming a default install); it will let the next n-10 messages accumulate in the mail queue (/var/spool/exim/input) awaiting a delivery run. Hmmm..... If you have a bunch of files in /var/spool/exim/input with names like 16TF3Y-0006Un-00-D 16TF3Y-0006Un-00-H then these are messages awaiting an exim to deliver them. As root, run exim -qf and a queue-runner process will deliver the mails as you expect (since you say that direct connections deliver as you expect). Well I'll let you answer this before I speculate some more. HTH -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome to the GNU age! http://www.gnu.org
