Re: fetchmail -> sendmail problem

2006-10-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> Slightly OT, but any reason you don't run fetchmail as a daemon (just > currious)? Reason was smaller building blocks to rearrange/ debug during construction/ breakage. Now merely a case of it works & others things to do. `When I get round to it" (TM ie ages ;-) I'll go D-DNS & SMTP whole way &

Re: fetchmail -> sendmail problem

2006-10-05 Thread Simon Barner
Julian Stacey wrote: > PS I guess you'r using fetchmail built into/ called from sendmail: > & that's why a timeout can occur. I do it a different way: fetchmail > called from crontab, & localy delivers to me on gate host, & gate > invokes another mail via ~/.forward to my internal network; More >

Re: fetchmail -> sendmail problem

2006-10-04 Thread Julian Stacey
> > > Is there a way to tweak the timeout behavior of sendmail, or maybe > > even no dns resolve option for sendmail, or even better some way to > > tell fetchmail to use the idle command to keep the connectio to the > > pop server open ? > > sendmail.mc supports FEATURE(`accept_unresolvabl

Re: fetchmail -> sendmail problem

2006-10-04 Thread Graham Menhennitt
Karsten Fuhrmann wrote: > The problem is the following : I am using fetchmail to download my > email (from a pop3 server), and fetchmail passes the email to my local > sendmail daemon who gives it to my local imap server (cyrus). This > works fine. But sometimes i got a spam email, which has an > u

Re: fetchmail -> sendmail problem

2006-10-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> Is there a way to tweak the timeout behavior of sendmail, or maybe > even no dns resolve option for sendmail, or even better some way to > tell fetchmail to use the idle command to keep the connectio to the > pop server open ? sendmail.mc supports FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains'),

fetchmail -> sendmail problem

2006-10-04 Thread Karsten Fuhrmann
Hello, i have a problem with some strange spam emails, which lock up my email reception. The problem is the following : I am using fetchmail to download my email (from a pop3 server), and fetchmail passes the email to my local sendmail daemon who gives it to my local imap server (cyrus). T