[Wylug-help] mail server problems

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 05 October 2008 01:16:19 Roger Beaumont wrote:
> Andrew J Cole wrote:
> >  Roger,
> >
> >  Looking at this one again - and this time reading the detail -
> >  explains a lot (see below).
>
> <snip>
>
> > > Clearly, 'mail' sees "roger at roger-beaumont.co.uk" as an external
> > > destination.
> >
> >  Strictly no.  "mail" is the MUA (Mail User Agent), the interactions
> >  we are seeing here are between the MUA and the MTA (Mail Transfer
> >  Agent) which looks like and claims it is ***sendmail***.  That would
> >  explain why ist not accepting roger-beaumont.co.uk for local
> >  delivery!
>
> BINGO!
>
> I think I remember some of the postfix documentation saying that
> postfix's mail sending thing was also called 'sendmail' which is why I
> overlooked this point.
>
> However, I un-installed the sendmail package and suddenly test messages,
> both with 'mail' and via thunderbird, do what I expect - they show up in
> the thunderbird/dovecot INBOX as incoming messages.
>
> Many thanks to everyone for their help. <big grin>
>
>
> Now I just need to work out how to run fetchmail on reboot.  Dovecot
> and, after 'adding' postfix that as well, show up in the Service
> Configuration tool, so I have set those to start in runlevels 3, 4 and 5.
>
> Despite trying to 'add service' for fetchmail, that doesn't show up in
> the tool.  Similarly, chkconfig reports "error reading information on
> service fetchmail: No such file or directory"
>
> I checked the old and new boxes - and the difference was that the old
> one had an executable script called fetchmail in /etc/init.d/ so I
> copied that across and both the GUI and the chkconfig command recognised
> it.  However, on reboot, the screen message said that fetchmail failed,
> "no server specified" (or something like that), but I was able to start
> the service manually once I'd logged in.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
I run fetchmail on a cron job.  If you fetch mail for more than one person it 
needs to run separate jobs for that person so that the relevant mail box is 
writeable.

Anne
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