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I have installed release CentOS 5.5 w/ fetchmail services. I've already configured the /.fetchmailrc in the correct format that I've learned from topics and I've checked also the sedmail running status. When I invoke the #fetchmail command this often happens:
fetchmail: WARNING: : Running as root is discouraged.
2 messages for user1 at mx.mailserver.com.ca: (1 of 2) (4353 octets) .....flushed
I have configured two NIC 's One for the public IP and another for the local network, I've tried to use the two IP's in the POP3 and SMTP settings of Mozilla Thunderbird but still user1 can't get messages.
Virtually all POP clients delete the message on the POP server after it has been downloaded - Otherwise the mailbox just fills up. If you haven't already, install webmin which has an easy-to-use fetchmail configuration module that will allow you to alter this behaviours either globally or on a per-user basis.Fetchmail just downloads the message from the POP3 server, hands it over to Sendmail/Postfix on the local machine and then removes it from the POP3 server. If you want to collect mail directly from your ISPs server than you don't need to use Fetchmail. The mail should be sitting on your machine - If you install a program like uw-imap or dovecot then you should be able to get it (uw-imap has IMAP and POP3 servers, and dovecot is a more advanced IMAP server).
I've noticed that no maildir is created each of the user in the /home directory, why is that?
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Originally Posted by prayag_pjs
Virtually all POP clients delete the message on the POP server after it has been downloaded - Otherwise the mailbox just fills up. If you haven't already, install webmin which has an easy-to-use fetchmail configuration module that will allow you to alter this behaviours either globally or on a per-user basis.Fetchmail just downloads the message from the POP3 server, hands it over to Sendmail/Postfix on the local machine and then removes it from the POP3 server. If you want to collect mail directly from your ISPs server than you don't need to use Fetchmail. The mail should be sitting on your machine - If you install a program like uw-imap or dovecot then you should be able to get it (uw-imap has IMAP and POP3 servers, and dovecot is a more advanced IMAP server).
Please let us know what are you trying to do ?
Are you setting up a new mail server?
Is it postfix or sendmail?
Though we know you are using fetchmail but why are you using fetchmail ?
Is it catchall id?
Is your mail server hosted somewhere else and you fetching mails?
Do let us know all these!!!
thanks for the reply
we have a mail server hear in H.O with qmail services and is hosted by mx.xxxx.com we have a branch that i have replaced the relay client with centos 5.5, the problem is the relay client recieves mail here in h.o (i've even checked in the webmin and it does stored the mail in the centos box) but it does not transfer in the client pc's mozilla thunderbird, I've rotated the thunderbird mail settings in the pop3 with the public ip of the centos box but still it does not recieve mail
centos 5.2
nic 1 = public ip
nic 2 = local network ip (for the transfering of mail to clients)
please help me
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Originally Posted by prayag_pjs
Hi,
Please let us know what are you trying to do ?
Are you setting up a new mail server?
Is it postfix or sendmail?
Though we know you are using fetchmail but why are you using fetchmail ?
Is it catchall id?
Is your mail server hosted somewhere else and you fetching mails?
Do let us know all these!!!
thanks for the reply
we have a mail server hear in H.O with qmail services and is hosted by mx.xxxx.com we have a branch that i have replaced the relay client with centos 5.5, the problem is the relay client recieves mail here in h.o (i've even checked in the webmin and it does stored the mail in the centos box) but it does not transfer in the client pc's mozilla thunderbird, I've rotated the thunderbird mail settings in the pop3 with the public ip of the centos box but still it does not recieve mail
centos 5.2
nic 1 = public ip
nic 2 = local network ip (for the transfering of mail to clients)
Here in our Head Office we have a mail server w/ qmail services, I access it via apache qmail web page for adding and modifying e-mail accounts,
It also serves as the mail storage of mail users, Our mail exchange server is hosted by mx1.sampledomain.com.
Far away from here we have another branch (lets name it brnch2) that I have replaced the mail relay server (formerly Redhat 9 now in CentOS newly installed)
The relay server (CentOS) in branch2 should fetch mails from the qmail server here in Head Office, then once it is stored in the CentOS box the three PC users should download the mails.
the only error is in branch2 the three PC can't get the mails from the CentOS box, seems like the CentOS box can't deliver the mails to the client pc I assumed.
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Originally Posted by prayag_pjs
Ok fine but in brief tell me you network how it is set now?
Whats your mail server?Whats your relay server?
Whats your postfix configuration?
Also let us know exact error!!
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