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[fetchmail]Fw: fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified

2004-09-16 15:31:38
Hi Guys,

I've been trying to set up an Email server following this =
http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Workbench/eart.index.html
article and have got as far as here =
http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Workbench/eart.3.0.html.

I'm running on Mac OS X 10.2.8 using fetchmail 6.2.0.

I have the following in /var/root/.fetchmailrc

set syslog
set daemon 60
poll mypophost.myisp.com.au proto pop3:
    user "xxxx" with password "xxxx" is "rmartin" here
        and wants smtpaddress mymachine.mydomain.com.au

and the following startup script in =
/Library/StartupItems/FetchMail/FetchMail

#!/bin/sh

.. /etc/rc.common

##
# Start mail server
##

if ["${MAILSERVER:=3D-NO-}" =3D "-YES-" ]; then

    ConsoleMessage "Starting FetchMail process"
    /usr/local/bin/fetchmail
fi

When I try to run the startup script manually using

sudo /Library/StartupItems/FetchMail/Fetchmail

I get the following error

Starting FetchMail process
fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified

I've searched using google and found posts with similar problems but =
nothing substantial enough to really go off. Most of the feedback seemed =
to indicated about the .fetchmailrc file not being found??

I should also point out that I'm not entirely confident that I have =
correct values for=20

mypophost (is this always just mail? how can I find out?),=20
myisp (is this the domain I own or the isp that provides my internet?),
mymachine and mydomain (I'm pretty sure I have these correct)

Thanks very much for any help you can give me and I hope I've provided =
sufficient information.

Regards,
----
Robin Martin


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