Problems with sendmail and fetchmail
 

Hi!
I am not sure if this is the place to post, but as I am a newbie I guess it's the right place.

Well, I have problems with fetchmail, that refuses to work. Poking my nose around I discovered that sendmail doesn't work and I don't know why. Can you help?
I'll give you some information that might help.

If I launch fetchmail I get:
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65 messages for pamide at mail.sitoverde.com (219437 octets).
reading message 1 of 65 (2575 octets) .fetchmail: timeout after 60 seconds
waiting for listener to respond.
fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from
mail.sitoverde.com
fetchmail: Query status=7 (ERROR)
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I cannot make sendmail or postfix work. Look what I found in /var/log/messages :

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Sep 7 22:23:04 localhost kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP

Sep 7 22:23:05 localhost postfix: Starting postfix:
Sep 7 22:23:05 localhost postfix: newaliases: fatal: could not find any
active network interfaces
Sep 7 22:23:06 localhost postfix: postmap: fatal: could not find any active
network interfaces
Sep 7 22:23:10 localhost last message repeated 4 times
Sep 7 22:23:12 localhost postfix: postfix
Sep 7 22:23:12 localhost rc: Starting postfix: succeeded
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I found 2 files in /var/log/mail : errors e warnings. Here I read:
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Sep 7 21:24:56 localhost postfix/sendmail[442]: fatal: could not find any
active network interfaces
Sep 7 21:25:02 localhost postfix[448]: fatal: could not find any active
network interfaces
Sep 7 21:49:17 localhost postfix/sendmail[444]: fatal: could not find any
active network interfaces
Sep 7 21:49:23 localhost postfix[450]: fatal: could not find any active
network interfaces
Sep 7 22:23:05 localhost postfix/sendmail[441]: fatal: could not find any
active network interfaces
Sep 7 22:23:11 localhost postfix[447]: fatal: could not find any active
network interfaces

Sep 7 22:29:44 localhost postfix/sendmail[815]: warning: Cannot flush mail
queue - mail system is down
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I cannot send mail localy with:
mail miky

In /etc/hosts I have:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost:Pengy:

well, it says "could not find any active network interfaces", so I think you should make sure all the network configs are ok, activate it manually, make sure its up, and then try again.

Well, I don't have a network interface. I only have a steam engine modem. What shall I configure?
I have no ideea.

Miky

You only need to have fetchmail running if you have more than one person using the computer, like on a network. Netscape Communicator or K-Mail do not need this to work. They work fine without it. Pine, on the other hand, does require it.

But if you want to set up a dummy ethernet card on your stand-alone machine, it is actually recommended. If you have Netconfig, you select another adapter and use the DNS 127.0.0.1 and then select dummy1 as your adapter. Voila! A networked, stand-alone computer!

I know that K-Mail is working. But I need fetchmail to download my mail. I don't care where.
Only this is not working. I'll try to configure a dummy network interface.
Oh, look! I have netconfig. I'll try configure it.

Thanks, Miky

Just getting your modem working would give you the network interface to keep sendmail / fetchmail happy... Mind you it does sound like even the loopback interface might not be up :( What output does give you if you run it from the command line.

cheers

Jamie...

No, it's not enough to keep fetchmail happy. fetchmail said that there are 65 messagges for miky and it was right. That means fetchmail was able to talk with mail.sitoverde.com server.

I am afraid I am really newbie and don't understand much

ifconfig sais:
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:10.0.0.18 P-t-P:10.0.0.254 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1600 Metric:1
RX packets:6 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1
TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:10