On 29/09/05, Bo Grimes <newslists(_at_)isp(_dot_)com> 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.
From the error, you're correct.
I have both Exim and sendmail. It looks like fetchmail is trying to use
exim rather than sendmail. Does this matter?
You have Exim running. Fetchmail is connecting to port 25/tcp on the
loopback (as the manual says).
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.
You have a config problem with exim (probably).
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
1) Post your .fetchmailrc
2) Confirm that <username> is the same at ISP and local machine (ie,
fred(_at_)isp(_dot_)com is fred(_at_)localhost
3) Consult your mail log (probably under /var/log/mail<something>)
4) Learn more about your MTA (http://www.exim.org/) :-)
5) Do the same for whatever flavour of Linux you've got
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Rob MacGregor
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
doesn't become a monster. Friedrich Nietzsche
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