Hi, i fear this one is behond me:( there are two things that to my knowledge shouldn't be there if you're using the fetchmailrc I think you're using. I'll point to these two point below.
I think you have in ~/.procmailrc something like: set postmaster "tony" set bouncemail set properties "" poll postoffice.worldnet.att.net aka worldnet.att.net, the-sphere.org with proto POP3 user arodriguez there with password not-this-one is tony here options keep fetchall the "aka worldnet.att.net" should take care of the first fetchmail complaint and the "user ... is tony here" should tell fetchmail whom to deliver to. > Here is what I got last: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail -v -v ; date > fetchmail: 5.3.3 querying postoffice.worldnet.att.net (protocol POP3) at Fri, > 15 Dec 2000 16:34:38 -0500 (EST) ... > reading message 1 of 16 (14488 octets) > About to rewrite Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Rewritten version is Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > fetchmail: analyzing Received line: > Received: from cannon9.mp3.com ([63.241.16.242]) > by mtiwgwc28.worldnet.att.net > (InterMail vM.4.01.03.10 201-229-121-110) with SMTP > id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > Fri, 15 Dec 2000 20:52:51 +0000 > fetchmail: line rejected, mtiwgwc28.worldnet.att.net is not an alias of the > mailserver This relected thing worries me, as we told fetchmail to accept the whole domain of worldnet.att.net with this aka thingy. ... > fetchmail: no local matches, forwarding to tony This 'no local matches' worries me too. He gets into failback mode here and is trying to deliver to the postmaster (in your case tony:) instead of directly to tony on behalve of the "user ...is tony here" line we gave him. So the above two errors should have been fixed with the corrected fetchmailrc file I think you're using. I take it that your running this "fetchmail -v -v" as the user tony, and I take it that your using ~tony/.fetchmailrc. So let's check and double check that you're using the right .fetchmailrc file with the right content. If so, than I'm out of my wit:[ This leaves us with the this is the real error that is keeping you from receiving files locally: > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed To check this I think someone proposed to you earlier on in this thread to check whether you could connect to exim locally with this: $ telnet localhost smtp which should give output like: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 animus.fel.iae.nl ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:03:04 +0100 to get out of this enter quit please verify with the above that your exim is running and accessible via its standard port. -- groetjes, carel