[ucc] Re: [plug] fetchmail

[stephen.]

Mike Holland wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, stephen. wrote:
> 
> > > fetchmail -u steve -p AUTO -A 'password' ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> 
> > > reading message 2 of 23 (878 header octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to root at optiquest failed
> 
> > so what am i missing - whats going wrong
> 
> Stephen,
> It has fetched the mail from UCC, but is unable to deliver it locally.
> Fetchmail trys to connect to the local TCP mail port - 'SMTP' is the mail
> transfer protocol. But nothing is listening.
> You should either run a sendmail daemon locally (or equivalent), which
> listens on port 25, or see the '-m' option in the fetchmail man page.
> 
> regards,

Thanks for the replys everyone - i now have it working someone suggested
using a .fetchmail script as shown below.
> defaults
>   user steve
>   fetchall
> 
> poll ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au  protocol pop3:
>   user steve
>   mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"