Re: [Sheflug] Fetchmail (again)

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 11:24:30AM +0100, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> A while ago I was trying to get Fetchmail working, and did actually
> for about five seconds, but can't remember how.  Yeah, I know.  Alex has
> pointed me in the direction of Matthew's pages, but where for art thou
> Matthew?

	Harvey, I'm no expert in these matters, but we'll give it a go
:)
> fetchmail -v it says the... 
> 
> fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<whoever.com> BODY=etc
> fetchmail: SMTP< 451 <whoever.com>... Sender domain must resolve
> fetchmail: SMTP> RSET
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Reset state
>  not flushed
> fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK Sayonara
> fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
> fetchmail: SMTP< 221 Lucille.Earth closing connection
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 0 

	Fetchmail is not to blame, it's more a sendmail problem. It's
either because
(i) sendmail tries to resolve the msg's domain (to block spam), and it
can't find it
(ii) your dns name resolution is knackered so it can't resolve names
even if the address is OK. Check /etc/resolv.conf for this

	If the problem is (i), someone with more sendmail experience
might be useful here :) 

	sorry to be of that little help!
	José

> Like I said, a month or so ago I did get fetchmail to work (once), but
> then life got in the way, you know how it is, and I cannot for the life of
> me remember what I did, or how it was set up.

	These things have a life of their own :-/

-- 
José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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