Problem with fetchmail in FC6

vedang · 01-11-2007, 02:44 AM

I have configured sendmail with fetchmail at our office to fetch mails from remote server.
My .fetchmailrc file is

poll server proto POP3
user sanjeev there with pass 12345 is sanjeev here

permissions are 710 for this file.

when i run fetchmail -v
it loggs in to remote server but cannot fetch the mails.
following error it shows.

SMTP transaction error while fetching sanjeev@server and delivering to SMTP host localhost

please help me sorting out this problem

billymayday · 01-11-2007, 03:00 AM

It sounds like fetchmail can't find an MTA on your system to deliver the downloaded mail to. What are you running?

vedang · 01-11-2007, 04:06 AM

I am running sendmail on this server and this is happening with each user on it.

billymayday · 01-11-2007, 04:08 AM

It looks to me from the message that fetchmail is having trouble delivering mail to sendmail then

tuxkid · 05-06-2007, 03:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vedang

I have configured sendmail with fetchmail at our office to fetch mails from remote server.
My .fetchmailrc file is

poll server proto POP3
user sanjeev there with pass 12345 is sanjeev here

permissions are 710 for this file.

when i run fetchmail -v
it loggs in to remote server but cannot fetch the mails.
following error it shows.

SMTP transaction error while fetching sanjeev@server and delivering to SMTP host localhost

please help me sorting out this problem

I didn't see that there was a final answer to this question. I had a similar problem which I eventually tracked to the beginning of the /etc/hosts file losing the all important 127.0.0.1 information. How that could have happened, I've no idea but it could be a FC6 quirk. I've used nearly every RedHat since 5.2 and this is the first time I've struck this.

This post is for anyone else looking who might have the same problem I had.

HTH

Posterboy · 05-08-2007, 07:54 AM

Did that fix it? If not, try sending local on-the-box mail from one user to another. Something like this:
as root, echo hello |sendmail -v auser@localhost. That will tell you a lot.

tuxkid · 05-09-2007, 02:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Posterboy

Did that fix it? If not, try sending local on-the-box mail from one user to another. Something like this:
as root, echo hello |sendmail -v auser@localhost. That will tell you a lot.

Yes. That's all I had to do to overcome the problem. I'm a little surprised (now that I know) that it wasn't mentioned by anyone else. I'd be interested in theories as to how the 127.0.0.1 could have been replaced by something like ::: (can't remember exactly it was). As long as it never happens again, I don't really care.

Thanks for the cho hello |sendmail tip. I see where it needs the 127.0.0.1