Re: Fetchmail does not retrieve mails in Slack9

From: Keith (kilowattradio_spam_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 08/29/03 

Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:26:14 GMT

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 22:10:19 +0530,
SRIKANTH NS in <bio0vk$b68sq$1@ID-176311.news.uni-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I installed Slack9 recently in a seperate partition ( I already have RH9).
> Setup spamassassin and installed sylpheed.
>
> I use fetchmail in RH so that it filters spam through spamassassin and I
> thought I will use the same in Slack.
>
> I gave the following command
>
> "fetchmail -u "myname" -p pop3 mail.vsnl.com
>
> It accessed the mail server alright but did not flush the mails. Error
> message was
> SMTP Error 451 4.1.8 the sender address somebody@somewhere.com doesnot
> resolve
>
> But the same command used in RH9 issued exactly in the same effortlessly
> retrieves the mails , filters it through spamassassin and puts them in
> /var/spool/mail/srikanth which I read with sylpheed (This method I am using
> for the past six months due to tons of spam) . The spam goes to
> "caughtspam".
>
> What is to be done in Slack9? What mistake I committed? or What other extra
> options to be given to fetchmail command in Slack?
>
> Srikanth
>
>

 In RH fetchmail defaults to procmail to process incoming emails if
sendmail is not available. You can set up the MTA in /etc or
in the users home directory. HTH. 

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