These lists are now depreciated, I'd advise the use of the lists at
fetchmail's new home at http://fetchmail.berlios.de (where you'll also
find a new version of fetchmail).
On 2/22/06, Scotter <news(_at_)stephen-scotter(_dot_)net> wrote:
1) ATRN using fetchmail. This would have been my preferred method as it
would keep headers intact. But authentication fails because the
mail.tobitmail.net requires the EHLO response to be the domain I wish to
collect mail for (Not RFC compliant I believe). Fetchmail always says "EHLO
localhost", unless I set the hostname to customers-domain.com before running
fetchmail. Obviously I don't want to have to keep renaming server, as I have
a few domains I'd like to collect mail for. Would have been lovely if there
was a -ehlo option!
I suspect that fetchmail provides the local hostname (I haven't
checked). What does "hostname" return?
2) I've just tired using fetchmail via POP3. If I run it with a --check it
tells me mails their to collect. If I knock the --check off it starts doing
its thing, then starts printing lots of dots. I assumed that this was a
progress report just telling me fetchmail is working, but even when I've
left it running for 10 minutes when one very small email is in the mailbox
its still echoing dots.
Slow link?
Heres the verbose output :-
[root(_at_)sunset ~]# fetchmail --username=USERNAME --verbose
--smtphost=localhost mail.tobitmail.net
Enter password for USERNAME(_at_)mail(_dot_)tobitmail(_dot_)net:
fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying mail.tobitmail.net (protocol auto) at Wed 22 Feb
2006 15:00:13 GMT: poll started
Old, old, version - I'd advise use of 6.3.2.
Depends on your .fetchmailrc, which you didn't post. If you don't
have one, then from the command line that's exactly what I'd expect -
look up "Multidrop" in the man page.
I know most peoples initiate reaction is to say get another server on the
internet and get that running as a backup server for your domains and remove
the tobit mail servers MX records from the domain. That is my overall plan,
but I need time and money to get to that stage.
You're not doing anything fancy. This is exactly the type of setup
I'm using. My domain host manages the Internet facing email, I use
fetchmail to pull the mail down at regular intervals and have people
poll the local mail server.
From what you've posted I'd say your problem is primarily a lack of
reading the man page :)
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Rob MacGregor
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
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