[Sheflug] Fetchmail (again)

[Harvey Kelly <nospam [at] kelly.uklinux.net>]

Hello Jose,

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
 
> 	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
> 
Okay, /etc/resolv.conf only has... 

search Earth

		... plus a notice that I should be editing /etc/rc.config
- I'm running SuSE 6.2 - Earth is my domain, Lucille my machine.

Then a very strange thing happened... I opened up /etc/rc.config, then
went back to /etc/resolv.conf to make sure that I was looking at the right
thing.  /etc/resolv.conf now read...

search Earth
nameserver 212.1.128.156
nameserver 212.1.128.157

			... with no mention of anything else - least of
all /etc/rc.config.  I changed the first line to search Lucille.Earth and
ran fetchmail again.  This time fetchmail... (sorry if there's too much
information here) showed this...

fetchmail: SMTP< 220 Lucille.Earth ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Wed, etc
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-Lucille.earth Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to
meet you
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-8BITMIME
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-DSN
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ONEX
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ETRN
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-XUSR
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-HELP
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<anyone.net> SIZE=590
fetchmail: SMTP< 451 <anyone.net>... Sender domain must resolve
fetchmail: SMTP error: 451 <anyone.net>... Sender domain must resolve
fetchmail: SMTP> RSET
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Reset state
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 Lucille.Earth Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to
meet you
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<FETCHMAIL-DAEMON [at] localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <FETCHMAIL-DAEMON [at] localhost>... Sender ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<anyone.net>... Recipient ok
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
fetchmail: SMTP: (bounce-message body)
fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 DAA00735 Message accepted for delivery
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 Lucille.Earth closing connection
 not flushed
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 2
fetchmail: POP3< +OK (595 octets)
reading message 2 of 2... and so on and so on until the Sayonara bit. 

In /etc/rc.config I filled the Nameserver="212.1.128.156
212.1.128.156" and Searchlist="Lucille.Earth" in, and the same message
comes up when I run fetchmail, I've also tried different combinations of
Lucille/Earth/Lucille.Earth in both resolv.conf and rc.config, and I've
put nameserver ********* in resolv.conf as well.  No joy, the above
message is what I'm getting everytime.  Does this shed any light?

Thanks

Harvey





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