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Re: [fetchmail]SMTP connect to localhost failed

2002-02-04 18:07:20
If you has procmail installed, I prefer use procmail as MDA, not SMTP on 
localhost. Because I'v made such mistake for a few times, So many mail lost.

In .fetchmailrc, it looks like this:

poll xxx
    user xxx ....
    options mda "procmail -d %T", ...

I think if the target user is right who start fetchmail, "-d %T" option can not 
be used. It works for me.

And in command line, you can use -m option to specify. Just like this:

fetchmail -m "procmail" ....

Good Luck everybudy, no more mail lost.


Rocky S. Lee <rocky(_at_)gnuchina(_dot_)org>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve" <steve(_at_)videogroup(_dot_)com>
To: <fetchmail-friends(_at_)lists(_dot_)ccil(_dot_)org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 3:37 AM
Subject: [fetchmail]SMTP connect to localhost failed


Hi,

Thought I'd share this with all.

Over the weekend I came back to:
fetchmail: can't raise the listener; 
               falling back to $procmail -d %Tfetchmail: 
               about to deliver  with: $procmail -d admin
sh: -d: command not found

As a result fetchmail spawned 'sh -d' which became defunct and a zombie 
process was left for each failed attempt.

The problem was postfix not starting after the server was moved.

-- 
 
Steve Szmidt
V.P. Information
Video Group Distributors, Inc.


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