[Techtalk] Fetchmail/Postfix/Hosts: Part 2

[jennyw]

Is there anything in /var/log/mail.log that might give a clue as to
what's going on?  Also, are you able to receive mail locally without
fetchmail? You can also try telnetting to port 25 and trying to talk to
the mailserver directly. This might be a postfix problem.

I hope we can help you on this list, but I've also found the postfix and
fetchmail mailing lists to be really helpful.

Good luck!

Jen

On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 16:04, Poppy Casper wrote:
> Happy weekend everyone =)
> 
> The good news is, I got my hosts set up... not perfect, but enough so
> that fetchmail can find postfix.
> 
> Which means it must be time for something else to break. Still testing
> fetchmail to make sure it's going to work... it logs into the remote
> mail server, connects to my local mail server (Postfix), makes some
> noise about what it's doing (sends to the remote what looks like some
> guidelines for sending the mail, size, 8BITMIME, ETRN....). I then get
> the MAIL FROM: header. Then it stops. No further prompt, no data appears
> to be transferred. Have let it run for a good 30 minutes or so before
> killing the process and trying it again.
> 
> Unfortunately, I know from this and my previous problem, that fetchmail
> is so _simple_ to set-up, that everyone seems to assume that it's
> foolproof, and I've found very little in the way of troubleshooting help
> (in English) on what problems might happen on the way. Can anyone help?
> 
> *********************************************************
> Log of fetchmail attempt:
> fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying pop.mail.yahoo.com (protocol POP3) at Sat 23
> Mar 2002 04:00:20 PM PST
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK hello from popgate(2.22)
> fetchmail: POP3> USER azurosedesigns
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK password required.
> fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK maildrop ready, 1 message (3457 octets) (3621
> 4194304)
> fetchmail: POP3> STAT
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 3457
> 1 message for azurosedesigns at pop.vip.sc5.yahoo.com (3457 octets).
> fetchmail: POP3> LIST
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 message (3457 octets)
> fetchmail: POP3< 1 3457
> fetchmail: POP3< .
> fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 3457 octets
> reading message 1 of 1 (3457 octets)
> fetchmail: SMTP< 220 bluegirl ESMTP Postfix (Postfix-20010228-pl03)
> (Mandrake Linux)
> fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250-bluegirl
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE 10240000
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ETRN
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 8BITMIME
> fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<special032102 at jobseekernews.com> SIZE=3457
> 
> 
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