Hi y'all
I am a relative newbie to Linux (<12 months playing on and off, mainly
with Mandrake)
After getting sick & tired of BSOD in XP, I've bitten the bullet and
purchased SuSE 8.0 Pro.
After a successful install and with just 5 days woth of investigation,
I have 2 problem areas the first of which is Internet access and
Dial-on-Demand.
As I understand it one should start KInternet by clicking on the small
cable icon then whenever an application requires access to a remote
server smpppd will dial one's ISP and start "ppp" & "fetchmail".
However, for me dialling only commences when I use YOU or XPilot.
Also, I wish to receive all email into "/var/spool/mail/" but nothing is
arriving.
Below is sample output of my manually started fetchmail.
I have created aliases "postmaster:root" AND "root:suse"
Connection to my ISP's POP server seems successful but no mail is
received in my spool.
Can anyone please advise?
Please let me know if you need further information.
This email address - suse@syrene.fsnet.co.uk - is my home email but I
do have web access.
Office hours are best served by sylvanus.currie@british-energy.com
-- Syl
-- "In the fullness of time all shall come to pass"
# Edit carefully, see /usr/share/doc/packages/yast2-config-mail/fetchmailrc.txt
# set daemon 900 ;
set postmaster "postmaster" ;
set no bouncemail ;
set logfile /var/log/fetchmail ;
poll "pop.freeserve.net" protocol AUTO : user "syrene.fsnet.co.uk" there with password "Sunavly5" to * keep ;
poll "pop3.demon.co.uk" protocol AUTO : user "syrene" there with password "db4rnr" to * keep ;
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linux:/home/sylvanus # fetchmail -avf /etc/fetchmailrc
fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying pop.freeserve.net (protocol auto) at Wed 19 Jun 2002 22:04:46 BST
fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying pop.freeserve.net (protocol IMAP) at Wed 19 Jun 2002 22:04:46 BST
fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting to connect to server pop.freeserve.net.
fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from pop.freeserve.net
fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying pop.freeserve.net (protocol POP3) at Wed 19 Jun 2002 22:09:46 BST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK POP3 server ready (cmailm2.svr.pol.co.uk)
fetchmail: POP3> USER syrene.fsnet.co.uk
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2 5331
fetchmail: 2 messages for syrene.fsnet.co.uk at pop.pol.net.uk (5331 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3< 1 2736
fetchmail: POP3< 2 2595
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: reading message 1 of 2 (2736 octets)
fetchmail:
fetchmail: nameserver failure while looking for `alias);' during poll of pop.freeserve.net.
fetchmail: nameserver failure while looking for `alias);' during poll of pop.freeserve.net.
.fetchmail: not flushed
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 2
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: reading message 2 of 2 (2595 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 linux.syrene.fsnet.co.uk ESMTP Postfix on SuSE Linux 8.0 (i386)
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-linux.syrene.fsnet.co.uk
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE 10240000
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-VRFY
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ETRN
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-XVERP
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 8BITMIME
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM: