Installed Debian (2.2 v3) this morning (crowd cheers!). I'm having a problem getting my incoming email to work. This is what I done:
- installed Debian with Exim as default MTA - configured Exim (probably incorrectly) - Installed fetchmail, fetchmailconf - configured fetchmailconf (grab email from POP3 server @ dial.pipex.com) - Installed procmail - Set up a few simple .procmailrc filters
Now when I run fetchmail -d0, it downloads the email from the pop server, but it does not arrive in /home/ash/mail as expected. On looking inside /var/spool/exim I get lots of:
.com [205.158.62.41]: 550 5.1.1 server2@email.com... User unknown
messages. This is for incoming email.
Can anyone help or share their Exim config file for retrieving mail from a pop3 server? FYI, I will be on the ALUG channel for IRC this afternoon
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Ashley T. Howes PhD www.ashleyhowes.com
"When all the animals of this world are gone, man will die of loneliness"
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 14:38:02 Ashley wrote:
Now when I run fetchmail -d0, it downloads the email from the pop server, but it does not arrive in /home/ash/mail as expected. On looking inside /var/spool/exim I get lots of:
.com [205.158.62.41]: 550 5.1.1 server2@email.com... User unknown
messages. This is for incoming email.
I would take a guess here that it is fetchmail that is incorrectly configured - it hands messages to exim (or other MTA) for delivery and exim expects mail to be addresses to one of the users defined in the /etc/passwd file so if fetchmail gets it wrong then exim will just bounce the mail.
Your fetchmail config file should have something like:
poll server with proto POP3 user 'user.name@isp' there with password secret is 'luser' here
where server and user.name@isp are replaces with details of your mail account with your ISP and luser is your login name in Linux.
Steve.
Now when I run fetchmail -d0, it downloads the email from the pop server, but it does not arrive in /home/ash/mail as expected. On looking inside /var/spool/exim I get lots of:
.com [205.158.62.41]: 550 5.1.1 server2@email.com... User unknown
messages. This is for incoming email.
I would take a guess here that it is fetchmail that is incorrectly configured - it hands messages to exim (or other MTA) for delivery and exim expects mail to be addresses to one of the users defined in the /etc/passwd file so if fetchmail gets it wrong then exim will just bounce the mail.
Your fetchmail config file should have something like:
poll server with proto POP3 user 'user.name@isp' there with password secret is 'luser' here
where server and user.name@isp are replaces with details of your mail account with your ISP and luser is your login name in Linux.
That was the cause of the problem (I also had to change a few parts of the exim.conf file to send email correctly through my ISPs SMTP server). Thanks to all that helped.
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Ashley T. Howes PhD www.ashleyhowes.com
"When all the animals of this world are gone, man will die of loneliness"
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Steve Fosdick