sendmail

[ajay]

i am very thankful to all of you , you helped me reaching close to fetchmail.
i found, fetchmail is doing all these things to me , then i read man pages and came to know whole process . i solved my problem too, it was permission problem for those scripts run under cron, /var/spool/cron/

someone deliberately changed i think so.


thanks a lot

rgds

ajay

On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 Rick Stevens wrote :
>Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
>>Greetings ,
>>
>>Bob McClure Jr wrote:
>>
>>>Any chance you could beat your mail program into submission and make
>>>it wrap lines every 72 chars or so?  It would make this a lot easier
>>>to read.  I'll reformat it.
>>>
>>>On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:09:53AM -0000, ajay wrote:
>>>
>>>>  hi folks
>>>>i would be highly thankful if anyone can tell me how sendmail
>>>>fetches mails from my .com server on internet
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>sendmail doesn't fetch mail.  sendmail handles mail sent to it.
>>>
>>>
>>>>i have redhat 9.0 and sendmail was working ok , since yesterday we
>>>>are not receiving any mails from outside. i checked my .com server
>>>>it's ok .  there 's something wrong in my config files.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>The most likely tool picking up your mail from another server would be
>>>fetchmail.
>>>
>>>>specifically i want to know which configuration files, service is
>>>>responsible to fetch mails from .com server.
>>>>is it fetchmail/procmail.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Probably.
>>>
>>
>>Well the story goes , somehow like this . Fetchmail is the tool that
>>fetches email from the remote pop server . Fetchmail alters the
>>recipient address so that sendmail is convinced that it is for the
>>localhost and therefore should be localy delivered and then passes
>>the email to sendmail . Now sendmail observes that the email should
>>be localy delivered and passes it  to procmail or whatever programm
>>/etc/mail/sendmail.cf  says is the Local Delivery Agent  ( if  i recall
>>well , towards the bottom of sendmail.cf is a declaration saying
>>MAILER(local)  ) .
>>
>>So in the proccess of delivering email  fetchmail then sendmail and
>>then procmail play their respective role .
>
>Well, really fetchmail picks up the mail at the ISP, buggers the
>recipient address, then passes it to the MTA listening on port 25
>of localhost.  Most often, that's sendmail, but it could be qmail
>or postfix or any one of a number of other MTA programs.
>
>The MTA is then responsible for delivery (via procmail or some other
>MDA).
>
>>>>i really do not know , i tried a lot rolling my self in /etc/mail
>>>>folder ,
>>
>>
>>Well don't touch those files because other things can be messed
>>up there. The files in /etc/mail are the ones that help sendmail act
>>as an Mail Transfer Agent . You would better go to the home directory
>>of the user in question and search for a file called ".fetchmailrc"
>>( notice the preceding dot "." it is an otherwise hidden file ) .
>>This is the configuration file for fetchmail and a good starting point.
>
>Also "man procmailrc" and "man procmailex" are good resources.
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