Claws to Mutt

[Cameron Simpson]

On 21Jul2007 11:12, Chris <racerx at makeworld.com> wrote:
| > You might want to show us an example line, copied from your
| > actual .fetchmailrc file, but without the password showing, rather
| > than a retyped example.
| > 
| > e.g. poll pop.mail.yahoo.com.au proto pop3 user "ignored_mailbox",
| > with password "secretwords", is "tim" here;
| > 
| > I use the glaringly obvious syntax, so it's easy to follow what I've
| > set into mine.  I do the same with things like iptables scripts (use
| > the long parameters, not the abbreviations - which I never remember).
| 
| Thanks Tim - 
| 
| poll mail.makeworld.com proto pop3 user "user at makeworld.com", with
| password "sillymunkietrixr4kidz" keep, is "munkie" here;
| 
| [racerx at racerx ~]$ fetchmail
| 1 message for racerx at makeworld.com at mail.makeworld.com (3549 octets).
| reading message
| racerx at makeworld.com@MAIL.MAKEWORLD.COM.NETSOLMAIL.NET:1 of 1 (3549
| octets)..fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [205.178.145.65/25]
| failed: Connection timed out. fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost
| failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from
| racerx at makeworld.com@mail.makeworld.com and delivering to SMTP host
| localhost fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) [racerx at racerx ~]$ 

By default fetchmail delivers to an SMTP server (your local one).

It seems a little strange that "localhost:smtp" should be
205.178.145.65/25 instead of 127.0.0.1/25.

1: Why is it using a public IP address instead of 127.0.0.1 ?
2: Might you have firewall rules blocking connection to
   205.178.145.65/25?
   (Personally I use REJECT instead of DROP; it makes things fail faster.)

Also, personally, I use procmail when delivering from fetchmail, eg:

  mda  "procmail $HOME/rc/mail/procmailrc"

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
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