[olug] fetchmail problems

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> 
> I dunno if there are any fetchmail gurus out there . . . 
> 
> I just upgraded to SuSE 7.0 (though not smoothly . . . ) and I think that
> fetchmail worked not long after the fact.  But now, when I try to run
> fetchmail, it just sits on first message it sees.
> 
> For example:
> 
> fetchmail: 5.5.2 querying ravine.binary.net (protocol POP3) at Wednesday,
> 27 Sep 2000 08:33:02 -0500 (CDT)
> fetchmail: 1 message for thehaas at ravine.binary.net (3666 octets).
> fetchmail: reading message 1 of 1 (3666 octets) 
> 
> So then, I thought, "maybe some libraries in SuSE 7.0 have changed" so I
> grabbed the latest fetchmail, and installed it.  Still the same thing.
> But I get get mail with Mozilla mail. . . . 
> 
> does anyone have any input???  Maybe it's a permissions issue somewhere
> in my mail setup that got changed in the upgrade???  I am using sendmail
> (yeah, yeah, I know . . . .)

Have you make sure addresses going to "@localhost" get delivered ok?  It's
the only think I can think of...

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch at creighton.edu

"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe.
And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein


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