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I just found this in /var/spool/exim4/input:
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A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
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[username](_at_)isp(_dot_)com
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Bo Grimes wrote:
I'm trying to learn mutt, so I installed fetchmail. I've tried to
solve this with Google, FAQs and the Linux Admin Handbook, but I'm
stumped. The best I can tell is the problem isn't with fetchmail but
with Exim. I have 5 email addresses with my isp, and I usually use
Evolution and Thunderbird. I didn't want to mess with any of those at
this time, so I am trying this out with a seperate pop account with
Newsguy.
After running fetchmailconf, if I leave the local names section out,
fetchmail has no problem checking the account and telling me there's
mail, but it doesn't actually fetch it. If I put my username for my
Linux box into the local names section and nothing else this is what I
get. (Strider is the name of my Linux box, and my username has been
replaced throughout with [username]):
reading message [username](_at_)pop(_dot_)newsguy(_dot_)com:1 of 1 (1721 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 strider ESMTP Exim 4.50 Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:23:58
-0400
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-strider Hello strider [127.0.0.1]
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE 52428800
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<[username(_at_)isp(_dot_)com> SIZE=1721
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 OK
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<[username](_at_)localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 451 Temporary local problem - please try later
fetchmail: SMTP error: 451 Temporary local problem - please try later
fetchmail: SMTP> RSET
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Reset OK
Basically all the POP3 command work, but the SMTP ones don't once it
gets to the local name.
I have both Exim and sendmail. It looks like fetchmail is trying to
use exim rather than sendmail. Does this matter?
I've looked all over /etc at /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf and
/var/mail. I don't know if this is an Exim conf problem, an issue of
which MTA I'm using or if my FQDM is wrong, or what.
I'm not a techie, admin, or guru of any sort. I've tried to figure it
out on my own as an exercise, but I just don't have a clue. I want
fetchmail to deliver my mail from this pop to /var/mail/[username],
where mutt defaults, and I just can't make it happen.
Any ideas? TIA
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