Message: 1
From: "Nikhil Parva" <nikhil(_at_)fleetship(_dot_)com>
To: "Rob" <rob_macgregor(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com>,
<fetchmail-friends(_at_)lists(_dot_)ccil(_dot_)org>
Subject: RE: [fetchmail]fetchmail + Outlook
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:00:46 -0700
Sooo, here we go !
Linux server : Redhat 9.0
Samba 2.2
Windows client: Windows 2000
Microsoft Outlook 2000
I have solved the previous problem, now there is a new problem. When I click
on Send receive in Outlook, it synchronizes perfectly without an error
message, but no messages are downloaded !
I have all the messages stored in /home/nikhil folder but unable to download
it using Outlook.
I think there's something wrong here, unless I'm seriously misunderstanding.
Fetchmail should get the messages, and deliver them to your local MTA on
the linux box (probably either sendmail or postfix).
This will then deliver the mail to your local account on the Redhat box.
The bit that seems wrong is that they would then be left in
'/var/spool/mail/nikhil' , and then when you sync up with Outlook
(horrible mail client , by the way!) the POP3 daemon on the RH box grabs
them from there.
The only way I can see them being anywhere in your home folder is if
you've read them with a conventional unix mail client on the RH box-
read messages will go into '/home/nikhil/mail' (or similar) and won't
get picked up with POP3. If that is what you have done, try not doing
it. Get soem mail from the remote server, don't read it on the RH box,
and then fire up outlook.
Logs : /var/log/maillog
Jun 5 18:09:14 localhost ipop3d[6776]: pop3 service init from 172.16.0.98
Jun 5 18:09:14 localhost ipop3d[6776]: Login user=nikhil host=[172.16.0.98]
nmsgs=0/0
Jun 5 18:09:14 localhost ipop3d[6776]: Logout user=nikhil
host=[172.16.0.98] nmsgs=0 ndele=0
Can someone help please.
rgds,
Nikhil