Topic: 6.0b3 & ferchmail - fetchmail:-:7: parse error at protocol

[james]

hi all,
i have done 3 installs at this stage of 6.0b3 and when i install sme-upgppp-1.0-1.noarch.rpm & sme-fetchmail-1.0-2.noarch.rpm I get the following errors:

WARNING in /etc/e-smith/templates-custom//etc/fetchmail/50multi-drop: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /etc/e-smith/templates-custom
//etc/fetchmail/50multi-drop line 93.
WARNING in
/etc/e-smith/templates-custom//etc/fetchmail/50multi-drop: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /etc/e-smith/templates-custom
//etc/fetchmail/50multi-drop line 97.
WARNING in /etc/e-smith/templates-custom//etc/fetchmail/50multi-drop: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /etc/e-smith/templates-custom
//etc/fetchmail/50multi-drop line 98.
WARNING: Template processing succeeded for //etc/fetchmail: 3 fragments generate
d warnings
 at /sbin/e-smith/expand-template line 49


fetchmail seems to work as emails are collect from my pop3 accounts but with each collection, i also get the following email:

From: Cron Daemon
To: root@dave-home.com
Subject: Cron /etc/startmail

fetchmail:-:7: parse error at protocol


any ideas how to fix this? or is there an updated fetchmail for 6.0b3??

[Ergin]

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[james]

they are the rpms i am using...
any other ideas?

[Ergin]

I think you get the messages because you /etc/fetchmail file contains multi-drop configuration (TEMPLATE)...

If you do not want to use the Multi-Drop feature, but only want to fetch mail to your users from e.g. POP3 accounts, then can clear the content of the following template file created by the above installation.

[root@e-smith ]# echo -n "" > /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/fetchmail/50multi-drop

[root@e-smith ]# /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/fetchmail

 

This way you avoid having your log files filled up with POP3 errors.