<emmajane(_at_)samurai(_dot_)com> writes:
Last night after spending the weekend working on it I got my email working
on RedHat7.3 with a DSL connection to Sympatico (local ISP). I was
essentially doing the following:
- fetchmail (+sendmail) picks up mail
- procmail does some lovely filtering
- mutt (+vi) reads, replies and creates new messages
- postfix sends mail (I didn't have the balls to figure out how to make
sendmail work, a friend is using postfix on Mandrake so I installed it)
If you want to use Postfix, then get rid of sendmail first, then
reinstall Postfix, and see if that fixes your problem. Make sure Postfix
listens on the SMTP port (it does by default).
Try lsof -i:25 to look what program is listening on port :smtp. If it's
sendmail, get rid of it. If it's nothing, then fix it. If it's smtpd or
master, everything is fine.
fetchmail -v -v
fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying mailbox41.utcc.utoronto.ca (protocol POP3) at
Tue 08 Oct 2002 12:25:31 PM EDT
And please update to 6.1.1 to get security-relevant and other bugfixes.
This configuration file DID work last night before I rebooted. I know that
a friend of mine has had similar problems with RedHat and is now using
getmail. Unfortunately one of my email accounts doesn't like using POP
(won't pick up with fetchmail and POP as the protocol).
Probably your startup sequence (boot sequence) confuses sendmail and
postfix, and their SMTP listener daemons cannot coexist because they'll
both fight for Port 25/TCP on your system. The Postfix INSTALL document
lays out the migration path from sendmail before, maybe that helps.
If that does NOT help, then feel free to subscribe to the postfix-users
list (see www.postfix.org), describe the steps you've taken to replace
sendmail by postfix, name your problem and what you'd want the computer
to do instead, and someone will probably help you.
--
Matthias Andree