fetchmail/sendmail problem... HELP
I REALLY need some help. I've included a lot of diagnostic stuff in this email to help the troubleshooting process. Please help. I'm struggling & I need some advice. The basic problem is that something changed between last night and this morning to make my email not work. Config details: ISP: charter email address subssn594@charter.net I use fetchmail to grab the email from the pop server (pop.charter.net) and deliver it to my local email account on my linux box (Red Hat 8.0) username on linux: bcurran fetchmailrc: poll pop.charter.net user subssn594 password xxxx fetchall When I run "fetchmail -v -v" I get good authentication, etc for both IMAP and POP3. I can see a list of email messages. When it retrieves messages I get (I'll just show the POP3 -- the IMAP is similar): fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2003 bytes will follow reading message 1 of 46 (2003 octets) About to rewrite Return-Path: <owner-gobruins@gobruins.ICSL.UCLA.EDU> Rewritten version is Return-Path: <owner-gobruins@gobruins.ICSL.UCLA.EDU> About to rewrite From: John Houser <jchouser@yahoo.com> Rewritten version is From: John Houser <jchouser@yahoo.com> About to rewrite To: gobruins@gobruins.icsl.ucla.edu Rewritten version is To: gobruins@gobruins.icsl.ucla.edu About to rewrite Sender: owner-gobruins@gobruins.icsl.ucla.edu Rewritten version is Sender: owner-gobruins@gobruins.icsl.ucla.edu fetchmail: timeout after 30 seconds waiting for listener to respond. fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while delivering to SMTP host pop.charter.net fetchmail: Query status=7 (ERROR) fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file. fetchmail: normal termination, status 7 Now, what I find is interesting is the message: Fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while delivering to SMTP host pop.charter.net It looks like it's trying to deliver to the pop server rather than my local account. WHY???? More stuff... I can email myself locally, so the SMTP server on my machine would appear to be ok. I can also telnet to the POP3 server and perform operations. My prime suspect is fetchmail. Somehow it seems to behave differently, and I have no idea why. Maybe there are different DNS entries or something causing fetchmail to deliver to the wrong place. (Of course, I don't know that the SMTP message is accurate or misleading.) TIA, Bill P.S. If you'd like to chat on the phone, please feel free. I need to get this fixed. -- Bill Mills-Curran Mills-Curran_Bill@emc.com EMC Corporation Tel: 508 382-7642 Coslin Drive, MS C33 Fax: 508 382-7913 Southboro, MA 01772 Tie: 824-27642
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:09:52 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Mills-Curran <Mills-Curran_Bill@emc.com> Reply-To: wlug@mail.wlug.org To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug@wlug.org> Subject: [Wlug] fetchmail/sendmail problem... HELP
I REALLY need some help. I've included a lot of diagnostic stuff in this email to help the troubleshooting process. Please help. <snip>
Ok, I got it to work, but only by extending the timeout parameter in my .fetchmailrc file from 30 seconds to 120 seconds. This brings up an intermittent problem I have with slow responses to connections. Some connections are slow, exceeding the timeout of 30 seconds. So, I would guess that this is the root cause. Slow response to this: ssh localhost Good response to this: ssh 192.168.1.12 TIA, Bill
I've seen weird things like this when the server can't get a good reverse DNS lookup (or sometimes a good forward lookup). Try adding an entry for your client into your server's /etc/hosts file ... It's fixed similar things for me. -Marc -----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Mills-Curran Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 11:26 AM To: Worcester Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [Wlug] fetchmail/sendmail problem... HELP On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:09:52 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Mills-Curran <Mills-Curran_Bill@emc.com> Reply-To: wlug@mail.wlug.org To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug@wlug.org> Subject: [Wlug] fetchmail/sendmail problem... HELP
I REALLY need some help. I've included a lot of diagnostic stuff in this email to help the troubleshooting process. Please help. <snip>
Ok, I got it to work, but only by extending the timeout parameter in my .fetchmailrc file from 30 seconds to 120 seconds. This brings up an intermittent problem I have with slow responses to connections. Some connections are slow, exceeding the timeout of 30 seconds. So, I would guess that this is the root cause. Slow response to this: ssh localhost Good response to this: ssh 192.168.1.12 TIA, Bill _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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