mail transfer, Kmail, fetchmail, procmail....
Really do not know how but since I changed something in the setup from ADSL to dialup I am sometimes flooded with double entries of my mail. I am using Kmail 1.9.1 on KDE 3.5 on Suse 9.3. In Kmail setup I have inserted that it should get the mail from my ISP and I had an entry that it should also get the mail of /var/mail/root and of myself /var/mail/cons. Assuming that I have one mail transfer agent too much I disabled the /var/mail/cons in the Kmail setup. The double entries have stopped but in the /var/mail/cons I have now 99 unread messages. Looking through them I have read and received them all so there are my double entries. There must be something amiss with my email transfer. And no idea where to begin to sort it out.
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:26 +0700 Constant van Nidek wrote:
Really do not know how but since I changed something in the setup from ADSL to dialup I am sometimes flooded with double entries of my mail. I am using Kmail 1.9.1 on KDE 3.5 on Suse 9.3. In Kmail setup I have inserted that it should get the mail from my ISP and I had an entry that it should also get the mail of /var/mail/root and of myself /var/mail/cons.
Looks like fetchmail fetches the mail automatically when dialing in. KMail gets this mail, but takes the same mail directly from the ISP through smtp. If you'd like KMail to take the mail directly from the ISP, but also keep the internal mail system up and running for other purposes, then run fetchmailconf and set the 'poll interval' to 0. fetchmail then stops loading mail automatically, it can be run manually. If you'd like to use the internal mail system for everything, then tell KMail not to get the mail from the ISP through smtp. On the other hand, if you'd like to only make use of smtp, then disable the internal mail system. I have been able to do this by uninstalling fetchmail, though others may know of better ways. S.H.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-01-20 at 20:05 +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
On the other hand, if you'd like to only make use of smtp, then disable the internal mail system. I have been able to do this by uninstalling fetchmail, though others may know of better ways.
Perhaps you confuse smtp with pop3? Anyway, to dissable fetchmail from running automatically, you just have to delete /etc/fetchmailrc - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFD0TkhtTMYHG2NR9URAkOgAJ0eXsxnbZEXin2NdXYR49wZQBli2QCeMB99 tpqNxgjMXioU95usuwGcVos= =Ua84 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:25 +0100 (CET), Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2006-01-20 at 20:05 +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
On the other hand, if you'd like to only make use of smtp, then disable the internal mail system. I have been able to do this by uninstalling fetchmail, though others may know of better ways.
Perhaps you confuse smtp with pop3?
Ah yes, for receiving it's pop3. Still, for sending, there's still the choice between smtp and having the mailer use a program like sendmail.
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