Hi all, I'am using SuSe linux 7.1 sendmail and fetchmail. I have a problem with fetchmail which I can not solve. I have a .fetchmailrc file in my root dir which say poll my.mail.com user .... pass .... is wil wil is a local user on my Linux server. I also have put in my aliases wil: wil All the incoming mail is delivered to /var/spool/mqueue but it should deliver the incoming mail to /var/spool/mail in the mailbox of user wil. In my opinion /var/spool/mqueue is only for outgoing mail. I try to solve the problem but I can not trace where the problem is. I hope somebody can point me the problem, or give me some suggestions, if you need more details, please let me know Rgds Wil
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:06:25AM +0200, wil wrote:
I'am using SuSe linux 7.1 sendmail and fetchmail. I have a problem with fetchmail which I can not solve.
I have a .fetchmailrc file in my root dir which say
poll my.mail.com user .... pass .... is wil
wil is a local user on my Linux server. I also have put in my aliases wil: wil All the incoming mail is delivered to /var/spool/mqueue but it should deliver the incoming mail to /var/spool/mail in the mailbox of user wil. In my opinion /var/spool/mqueue is only for outgoing mail. I try to solve the problem but I can not trace where the problem is.
I hope somebody can point me the problem, or give me some suggestions, if you need more details, please let me know
Fetchmail doesn't deliver the messages to /var/spool/mqueue. What it does is feed the messages it downloads back into sendmail on port 25 of your machine. Sendmail is then responsible for delivering that mail. /var/spool/mqueue is sendmail's spool directory. Next time this happens, try running 'sendmail -q', and sendmail should process the queue and deliver the messages to /var/spool/mail. Make sure you have sendmail set up correctly, so that it will deliver mail without prompting. Hope that helps, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Hi all,
Thanks for the help, but I allready found the problem. If enybody is
interested?
In /etc/sendmail.cf there is the following option:
# default delivery mode
0 DeliveryMode=defer
This must be (on my system at least
# default delivery mode
0 DeliveryMode=background
With defer all incoming mail goes to /var/spool/mqueue (whcih is the
outgoing
mail queue another sendmail -q delivers all e-mail to /var/spool/usersname
But when I change DeliveryMode=Background all incoming mail is correctly
delivered immediately in /var/spool/usersname
So problem solved.
Thanks for the help.
Bye
Wil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Reeves"
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:06:25AM +0200, wil wrote:
I'am using SuSe linux 7.1 sendmail and fetchmail. I have a problem with fetchmail which I can not solve.
I have a .fetchmailrc file in my root dir which say
poll my.mail.com user .... pass .... is wil
wil is a local user on my Linux server. I also have put in my aliases wil: wil All the incoming mail is delivered to /var/spool/mqueue but it should deliver the incoming mail to /var/spool/mail in the mailbox of user wil. In my opinion /var/spool/mqueue is only for outgoing mail. I try to solve the problem but I can not trace where the problem is.
I hope somebody can point me the problem, or give me some suggestions, if you need more details, please let me know
Fetchmail doesn't deliver the messages to /var/spool/mqueue. What it does is feed the messages it downloads back into sendmail on port 25 of your machine. Sendmail is then responsible for delivering that mail. /var/spool/mqueue is sendmail's spool directory. Next time this happens, try running 'sendmail -q', and sendmail should process the queue and deliver the messages to /var/spool/mail.
Make sure you have sendmail set up correctly, so that it will deliver mail without prompting.
Hope that helps, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
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On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, kinderen wrote:
Hi all,
Thanks for the help, but I allready found the problem. If enybody is interested? THANKS! I had encountered that with 7.1 also, but since sendmail -q was an easy workaround, and I've got bigger problems with that laptop, I hadn't gotten around to diff'ing the sendmail.cf with my 6.4 system to find the offending line... Now, if anybody knows how to configure sound for a CS4237b on a Dell Latitude CPi D266? ...or why the page-up and page-down keys don't work?
-- Rick Green "I have the heart of a little child, and the brain of a genius. ... and I keep them in a jar under my bed"
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