Fetchmail hangs getting mail

Gnarg · 03-27-2006, 06:28 AM

Hi,

I have reinstalled my OS ( Gentoo ) installed Fetchmail and copied my .fetchmailrc from my backup and back to my users home folder.

When I run fetchmail manually it looks like its downloading my mail but it just sits there and never ends. It almost looks like its downloading a huge attachment when infact its not.

There was a post I read about using chmod my /var/spool/mail folder which I tried and did not work.

Anyone have an idea to corrent this problem?

Thank you,

Gnarg

jib2 · 03-28-2006, 12:04 AM

You could add a line at the beginning of .fetchmailrc :

set logfile "~/.fetchmaillog"

and see what the logfile tells you.

Gnarg · 03-28-2006, 03:57 PM

Hi Jib2,

I tried as you suggested but no log was created since the application really did not finish. In order for me to stop CTRL+C has to be used to stop it from being stuck.

If this helps, I have postfix installed as well...

Gnarg....

Gnarg · 03-30-2006, 06:56 AM

I've been doing more research and found that the problem is not fetchmail but looks like its postfix. Right now Postfix does not send mail to my local users so if I can get Postfix set up correctly again fetchmail should work. I'll have to figure out how to correctly configure postfix again.

Gnarg

Gnarg · 04-03-2006, 06:51 AM

Well I now know the the problem is Postfix. Once I set up postfix correctly, fetchmail is able to grab the mails properly and stop hanging.

Gnarg