[TAG] Settin up the mail subsystem

[Claude S. Sutton]

Ben:

It appears that I am getting messages in my cssutto at attglobal.net box 
but not in my claudesutton at cognisurf.com box.

The way I have tested it is to send from cognisurf mail to 
cssutto at attglobal.net with a copy to claudesutton at cognisurf.com.

I have also sent messages from attglobal to cognisurf.

Messages addressed to cognisurf are lost.

I deleted the fetchmail.conf .fetchmailrc and used your format and 
although mail.log showed that fetchmail was reading and flushing them, I 
was not getting them.  Certainly something about the host file, but I 
don't know what.

So I went back to fetchmail.conf and ran it again and I enclose a copy 
of that file.

I am not concerned about the 2it.net account right now, as there is 
nothing in it anyway.  I will worry about getting that going after I get 
these others going.

CSSJR

# Configuration created Fri Aug 11 12:54:01 2006 by fetchmailconf 1.52 
$Revision: 4636 $
set syslog
set postmaster "claude69694"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
set daemon 300
poll pop3.attglobal.net with proto POP3
        user 'usinet.cssutto' there with password 'aok2mill' is 
'claude69694' here options fetchall stripcr
  mda 'procmail -f-'

poll mail.cognisurf.com with proto POP3
        user 'claudesutton at cognisurf.com' there with password 'aok3mill' 
is 'claude69694' here options fetchall stripcr
  mda 'procmail -f-'

poll mail.2it.net with proto POP3
        user 'claudesutton.suttonmachine.c' there with password 
'sutton2006' is 'claudesutton.suttonmachine.c' here options fetchall stripcr
  mda 'procmail -f-'





Benjamin A. Okopnik wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 10:43:45AM -0400, Claude S. Sutton wrote:
>> I start my Alltel wireless with "pon alltel".
>>
>> "pppconfig" rewrites the "/etc/resolv.conf" file everytime "pon" is 
>> activated.
>>
>> Probably because the Alltel connection only works with a dynamic DNS 
>> setting in "pppconifg".
>>
>> I tried to outsmart it by setting the DNS setting to "none", as the 
>> directions in "pppconfig" say that is the thing to do if you do not want 
>> "resolv.conf" re-written on every startup.
>>
>> That did not work.  What happens is that "pppconfig" puts some weird DNS 
>> in the file that Alltel can't use.
>>
>> So I need to find out how to tell "fetchmail" to see  "order hosts,bind".
> 
> Claude, you're chasing the wrong problem. 'fetchmail' is a client
> application that has nothing to do with name resolution;
> '/etc/resolv.conf' has nothing to do with client apps and provides only
> name resolution server info.
> 
> As long as you can connect to any site by name in any way - e.g., if you
> can enter 'http://cnn.com' into your browser and have it go there - then
> your 'resolv.conf' is just fine, and messing with it can only bring you
> grief.
> 
> What is 'fetchmail' doing or not doing? What does the '-v' option
> report? I also note, from something you said in an earlier email, that
> you're expecting 'fetchmail' to handle SMTP; that's not what it does.
> 'fetchmail' _retrieves_ mail, which means POP (or APOP|ETRN|ODMR|IMAP);
> SMTP deals with sending mail.
> 
> 
> * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://linuxgazette.net *
>