shanew(_at_)shanew(_dot_)net writes:
I'm sorry to have been so tardy responding but made a change in my
setup that took a while to get working. Basicly I scrapped fetchmail
and installed `getmail' .. using getmail to call procmail which seemed
to work just fine.
I'll have to run the new setup a while to see if there are problems I
haven't noticed .
I am or was a long time `fetchamil' user... since sometime in mid 90s
so was not eager to scrap it
However, it kind of makes the thread a moot point. Sorry I've wasted several
reponders time.
It's not really wasted .. at least not for me. I'm getting a better
understanding just reading the reponents comments.
The fact that you're not seeing anything in the procmail log makes me
think procmail isn't getting called correctly.
I thought so too. I did a fair bit of googling without a lot of
success. Once I finally got sendmail to work. Send was working ok.
Retrieval would stall and timeout at the point where fetchmail handed
off the incoming messages to local sendmail (submit.cf I guess)
I've since went a whole different route. I scrapped fetchmail
entirely, something I've been using for a lot of years.
Installed `getmail' studied up a bit on that syntax. And finally got
getmail to call procmail with incoming mail.
In summary:
So now I have sendmail working, scrapped fetchmail, getmail working
and procmail working. So I'm good to go.
However I would like to understand why I had the problems.
It will have to be another time when/if I go back to fetchmail or have
renewed problems with sendmail.
Could you paste the output of:
grep -A1 -B1 -i procmail /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
(or whatever the path to your main sendmail cf file if it's not standard)
First:
I am running the real sendmail on Debian. Here are the pkgs and versions
root # aptitude search -F '%p %v' '?installed'|sed 's/ //'|grep
sendmail
libmail-sendmail-perl 0.79.16-1
sendmail 8.14.4-8+deb8u
sendmail-base 8.14.4-8+deb8u
sendmail-bin 8.14.4-8+deb8u
sendmail-cf 8.14.4-8+deb8u
sendmail-doc 8.14.4-8+deb8u
fetchmail 6.3.26-1+b1
procmail 3.22-24
and now:
getmail4 4.46.0-1+deb8
The output you requested:
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root # grep -A1 -B1 -i procmail /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
Is kind of pointless now, since I've removed the procail entries
sendmail.mc
I started to include this but I've removed the procmail from my latest
config and did not keep a copy of the *.mc files that were failing to
call procmail.
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