Detailed information follow. In few words, I configured fetchmail to
pass to Procmail. I first had it poll two pop servers: altern.org and
pop.laposte.net. This worked at once. I then added pop.free.fr. I did
not got email. I read the log file and it say:
fetchmail: fetchmail: getaddrinfo(pop.free.fr.pop3)
This does not match with what it did for the other servers where the line was:
fetchmail: fetchmail: getaddrinfo(altern.org)
I guess that it does not understand country TLD in two letters ?
1. Your operating system.
MacOS X 10.2.3
2. Your compiler version, if you built from source; otherwise,
the name and origin of the RPM or other binary package you installed.
Standard distribution with MacOS X
3. A copy of your POP or IMAP server's greeting line.
4. The name and version of the SMTP listener or MDA you are forwarding to.
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
[fbg:~] fgranger% procmail -v
procmail v3.21 2001/06/29
Copyright (c) 1990-1999, Stephen R. van den Berg <srb(_at_)cuci(_dot_)nl>
Copyright (c) 1997-2001, Philip A. Guenther
<guenther(_at_)sendmail(_dot_)com>
Submit questions/answers to the procmail-related mailinglist by sending to:
<procmail-users(_at_)procmail(_dot_)org>
And of course, subscription and information requests for this list to:
<procmail-users-request(_at_)procmail(_dot_)org>
Locking strategies: dotlocking, fcntl(), lockf()
Default rcfile: $HOME/.procmailrc
Your system mailbox: /var/mail/fgranger
5. Any command-line options you used.
6. The output of fetchmail -V called with whatever other
command-line options you used.
This is fetchmail release 6.1.2+IMAP-GSS+SSL+INET6
Fallback MDA: (none)
Darwin fbg.local. 6.3 Darwin Kernel Version 6.3: Sat Dec 14 03:11:25
PST 2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.23.obj~4/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh
powerpc
Taking options from command line and /Users/fgranger/.fetchmailrc
Poll interval is 600 seconds
Logfile is /Users/fgranger/Mail/fetchmail.log
Idfile is /Users/fgranger/.fetchids
Fetchmail will masquerade and will not generate Received
Fetchmail will show progress dots even in logfiles.
Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to fgranger.
Fetchmail will direct error mail to the postmaster.
Options for retrieving from p(_dot_)barn(_at_)pop(_dot_)laposte(_dot_)net:
Poll of this server will occur every 3 intervals.
True name of server is pop.laposte.net.
Protocol is POP3 (forcing UIDL use).
All available authentication methods will be tried.
Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
Default mailbox selected.
Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
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 disabled (--norewrite on).
Carriage-return stripping is enabled (stripcr on).
Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
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)
Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
Messages will be delivered with "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T".
Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
3 UIDs saved.
Poll trace information will be added to the Received header.
Pass-through properties "receivedFor: p(_dot_)barn(_at_)lapost(_dot_)net".
Options for retrieving from
francois(_dot_)granger(_at_)pop(_dot_)laposte(_dot_)net:
Poll of this server will occur every 3 intervals.
True name of server is pop.laposte.net.
Protocol is POP3 (forcing UIDL use).
All available authentication methods will be tried.
Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
Default mailbox selected.
Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
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 disabled (--norewrite on).
Carriage-return stripping is enabled (stripcr on).
Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
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)
Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
Messages will be delivered with "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T".
Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
14 UIDs saved.
Poll trace information will be added to the Received header.
Pass-through properties "receivedFor:
francois(_dot_)granger(_at_)lapost(_dot_)net".
Options for retrieving from pbarn(_at_)altern(_dot_)org:
Poll of this server will occur every 3 intervals.
True name of server is altern.org.
Protocol is POP3 (forcing UIDL use).
All available authentication methods will be tried.
Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
Default mailbox selected.
Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
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 disabled (--norewrite on).
Carriage-return stripping is enabled (stripcr on).
Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
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)
Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
Messages will be delivered with "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T".
Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
25 UIDs saved.
Poll trace information will be added to the Received header.
Pass-through properties "receivedFor: pbarn(_at_)altern(_dot_)org".
Options for retrieving from fgranger(_at_)altern(_dot_)org:
Poll of this server will occur every 3 intervals.
True name of server is altern.org.
Protocol is POP3 (forcing UIDL use).
All available authentication methods will be tried.
Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
Default mailbox selected.
Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
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 disabled (--norewrite on).
Carriage-return stripping is enabled (stripcr on).
Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
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)
Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
Messages will be delivered with "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T".
Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
6 UIDs saved.
Poll trace information will be added to the Received header.
Pass-through properties "receivedFor: fgranger(_at_)altern(_dot_)org".
Options for retrieving from francois(_dot_)granger(_at_)pop(_dot_)free(_dot_)fr:
True name of server is pop.free.fr.
Protocol is POP3 (forcing UIDL use).
All available authentication methods will be tried.
Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
Default mailbox selected.
Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
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 disabled (--norewrite on).
Carriage-return stripping is enabled (stripcr on).
Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
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)
Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
Messages will be delivered with "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T".
Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
No UIDs saved from this host.
Poll trace information will be added to the Received header.
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