hi friends
i am a newbie in linux and fetchmail also. i installed and working in debian
GNU linux 2.2.13 . i correctly installed exim and send mails correctly. but the
fetchmail don't work.i try to fetch mails from the IMAP and POP servers. could
u help me with necessary instructions to me. my email is
jijojose(_at_)123india(_dot_)com(_dot_)i include the inf of my system,expect
more emails from u'r side
thanks in advance.
jijojose
System specifications
Debian Linux 2.2.13
compiler gcc 2.2.95
MDA : procmail v3.13.1
.fetchmailrc
***********# fetchmail control file sample (remove this header comment from
yours!)
set logfile="/var/log/fetchmail.log"
defaults
interface "ppp0/61.1.234.5/225.225.225.225"
poll 123india.com protocol auto username jijojose password pass
options keep fetchall forcecr warnings 3600;
poll sancharnet.in protocol auto username jijojose password pass
options keep fetchall forcecr warnings 3600 smtphost localhost;
poll rediffmail.com protocol auto username jijoalpy password pass
options keep fetchall forcecr warnings 3600 smtphost localhost;
poll 123india.com protocol imap username jijojose password pass options ;
fetchmail.log
************
fetchmail: normal termination, status 0
fetchmail: skipping poll of 123india.com, ppp0/61.1.234.5/225.225.225.225 IP
address excluded
fetchmail: skipping poll of rediffmail.com, ppp0/61.1.234.5/225.225.225.225 IP
address excluded
fetchmail: skipping poll of 123india.com, ppp0/61.1.234.5/225.225.225.225 IP
address excluded
fetchmail: skipping poll of rediffmail.com, ppp0/61.1.234.5/225.225.225.225 IP
address excluded
fetchmail: skipping poll of 123india.com, ppp0/61.1.234.5/225.225.225.225 IP
address excluded
fetchmail: skipping poll of rediffmail.com, ppp0/61.1.234.5/225.225.225.225 IP
address excluded
fetchmail-V
*************
This is fetchmail release 5.3.3+NTLM+SDPS+NLS
Linux debian 2.2.13 #4 SMP Wed Jun 20 10:24:10 IST 2001 i686 unknown
Taking options from command line and /root/.fetchmailrc
Logfile is /var/log/fetchmail.log
Idfile is /root/.fetchids
Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to postmaster.
Options for retrieving from jijojose(_at_)123india(_dot_)com:
True name of server is 123india.com.
Protocol is auto.
Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
Default mailbox selected.
All messages will be retrieved (--all on).
Fetched messages will be kept on the server (--keep on).
Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush off).
Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
Carriage-return stripping is disabled (stripcr off).
Carriage-return forcing is enabled (forcecr on).
Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits off).
MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
Idle after poll is disabled (idle off).
Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: localhost (default)
Recognized listener spam block responses are: 571 550 501 554
Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
Connection must be through interface ppp0/61.1.234.5/225.225.225.225.
Options for retrieving from jijoalpy(_at_)rediffmail(_dot_)com:
True name of server is rediffmail.com.
Protocol is auto.
Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
Default mailbox selected.
All messages will be retrieved (--all on).
Fetched messages will be kept on the server (--keep on).
Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush off).
Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
Carriage-return stripping is disabled (stripcr off).
Carriage-return forcing is enabled (forcecr on).
Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits off).
MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
Idle after poll is disabled (idle off).
Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: localhost
Recognized listener spam block responses are: 571 550 501 554
Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
Connection must be through interface ppp0/61.1.234.5/225.225.225.225.
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