howdy,
I did a upgrade from e-smith 4 to SME 5.6 (i know its overdue but
forgive me)
after the upgrade, none of my spooled mail came through... here are some
details :
my /etc/fetchmail contains the following :
/usr/bin/fetchmail --syslog --silent --protocol ETRN --smtphost '@mydomain.co.za' venus.mweb.net > /dev/null 2>&1
I tried the following to see why no mail was coming through :
[root@e-smith root]# /usr/bin/fetchmail -v -v --protocol ETRN --smtphost '@mydomain.co.za' venus.mweb.net
fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying venus.mweb.net (protocol ETRN) at Tue 05 Aug 2003 05:57:11 PM SAST
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 smtp.mweb.net ESMTP Exim 3.36 #1 Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:27:31 +0200
fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-hermes.mweb.net Hello mail.mydomain.co.za [196.2.34.175]
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE 26214400
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ETRN
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-AUTH CRAM-MD5 PLAIN LOGIN
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP
fetchmail: ETRN> ETRN localhost
fetchmail: ETRN< 458 Already processing localhost
fetchmail: Unable to queue messages for node localhost
fetchmail: ETRN> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 hermes.mweb.net closing connection
fetchmail: client/server protocol error while fetching from venus.mweb.net
fetchmail: Query status=4 (PROTOCOL)
fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file.
fetchmail: normal termination, status 4
fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file.
I noticed that my fetchmail sends the command "ETRN localhost"
I figured that couldnt be right, so I did a telnet to venus.mweb.net on
port 25 and tried "ETRN mydomain.co.za" and it started sending my mail!!
great!!...but....
Why does fetchmail do a ETRN localhost, witch doesnt work, and how/where
can i tell it to do a ETRN mydomain.co.za??
help/comments apreciated
Thx
Robey Phinn
C.A & W Services CC
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