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Re: [fetchmail] fetchmail error

2003-02-16 20:07:02
On Sunday 16 February 2003 07:49 pm, Landy Roman wrote:
error code.  What confuses me is that you refer to a 2nd box.
Am I to assume that you are trying to fetch from one box to the
other...better

what i meant is that i have done this before


yet, give a

few more details before my brain goes into and endless loop.
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i have no other details, are  you saying this is a postfix issue?


If postfix can't get a DNS lookup it will return an error code.  In most 
cases, if it is a temporary error (4xx) fetchmail will not flush the mail.  
After all, if it is not a permanent error (5xx) you don't want trash the 
mail.

Check /var/log/mail/warnings and see if there is a complaint there that 
/etc/hosts or resolv.conf don't match /var/spool/postfix/etc/hosts... or 
something similar.

It might be a postfix or a DNS issue.  Fetchmail seems to be behaving as 
specified in man fetchmail.

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