Re: fetchmail failing in fetching mail from a pop server

[Robert Wilhelm Land]

Alan,
the fetchmail manpage Elizabeth partly pasted in this thread
documents using the mda command forces fetchmail to
pass all mail to the application stated in the argument
of the mda command - rather than forwarding to port 25.

But this seems not to be the point. I've no idea why fetchmail
is complaining about unexpected message lengths and
googling for this error resulted in lots of people reporting
this error but no one giving a solution to it.

I'm really desperated

Robert



Alan Chandler wrote:
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> On Saturday 23 November 2002 3:45 pm, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote:
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> > Addionaly a helpful person had sent me his configuration,
> > unfortunatly he's no on the list anymore.
> > What he uses was a system fetchmailrc with this line:
> > mda "/usr/sbin/exim -oMr fetchmail -oem -f %F %T"
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> I think you are trying to do it the wrong way.
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> Fetchmail gets the mail from the pop3 server and then uses smtp (ie it makes a
> connection to port 25 of localhost) to send the mail on. You set up exim as
> the server for messages to port 25. It receives these messages and delivers
> them.
>
> Obviously for stuff being received with fetchmail you probably want to deliver
> them locally - but exim can also be set up to take messages from your mail
> client and then pass them on to your ISP etc.
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