Re: exim and fetchmail

2001-06-01 Thread Tobias Galitzien
I'll try to point this out by assuming your username on the pop3 server and on your local machine is "jason". The hostname of your local one seems to be "magneto.whizzird.net". If you tell fetchmail in .fetchmailrc "poll mail.whizzird.net user jason password secret" it will fetch the mail from the

Re: Exim and fetchmail

1999-10-21 Thread Philip Lehman
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Philip Lehman wrote: >root, the command in /etc/ppp/ip-* should be preceded by a `sudo` >command, e.g. > >sudo fetchmail -d 600 It's `sudo -u ...`, forgot the '-u', sorry. -- Space for hire. Contact Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Exim and fetchmail

1999-10-21 Thread Philip Lehman
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Richard Clarke wrote: >Could someone point me to documentation for exim and fetchmail which is >easier to understand than the "man" files. There is more documentation in /usr/doc or /usr/share/doc. It's more comprehensive, but it's probably not that helpfull if you just want

Re: Exim and fetchmail

1999-10-21 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Sorry, I put the quotes in the wrong place. It should be mda "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem $USER" Sebastian Canagaratna

Re: Exim and fetchmail

1999-10-21 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
After configuring exim by running eximconfig, you have to create a file called .fetchmailrc in your home directory. If you want to fetch mail from say postoffice.X.edu where your username is username your .fetchmailrc file would have set postmaster "username" poll postoffice.X.edu with proto POP3

Re: Exim and fetchmail

1999-05-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 05 May 1999 17:45:09 -0400, you wrote: >I regard this as a bug in the installation procedure. Either >fetchmail should deliver to "user" (without the "@localhost") >or exim should be configured by default to accept such mail. See bug #36837. The installation script of exim tells you that

Re: Exim and fetchmail

1999-05-06 Thread Arcady Genkin
Jake Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Fetchmail's documentation has a special section on working wiht exim. It specifically mentions that you should add localhost to your exim's accepted domain names. Did you do that? Cheers! > I am having a problem getting exim and fetchmail to work.I just >

Re: Exim and fetchmail

1999-05-05 Thread Dan Christensen
Jake Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > I am having a problem getting exim and fetchmail to work.I just > installed Slink.I used option #2 in the > eximconfig menu. when I try to send a message with mutt it only goes to > /var/spool/mail/jak3b. > when I try to use fetchmail I get this me

Re: Exim and fetchmail

1999-05-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 05 May 1999 10:45:44 -0700, you wrote: >I am having a problem getting exim and fetchmail to work.I just >installed Slink.I used option #2 in the >eximconfig menu. when I try to send a message with mutt it only goes to >/var/spool/mail/jak3b. >when I try to use fetchmail I get this message:

RE: exim and fetchmail

1998-10-18 Thread Michael Beattie
Michael Beattie[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, October 17, 1998 9:19 AM > To: Russ Cook > Cc: debian user list > Subject: Re: exim and fetchmail > > > Change these lines in /etc/exim.conf: > > qualify_domain = > &g

RE: exim and fetchmail

1998-10-18 Thread RUSSELL COOK
ECTED] and is denied. Any more hints? This is frustrating. -- From: Michael Beattie[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 17, 1998 9:19 AM To: Russ Cook Cc: debian user list Subject: Re: exim and fetchmail Change these lines in /etc/exim.conf: qualify_d

Re: exim and fetchmail

1998-10-17 Thread Michael Beattie
Change these lines in /etc/exim.conf: qualify_domain = local_domains = :localhost local_domains_include_host = true local_domains_include_host_literals = true sender_host_reject_relay = * sender_unqualified_hosts = localhost I cant remember which ones are relevant, but that makes it work.