Topic: Fetching mail

[Russell Tiedt]

Hi,

Just setup e-smith ver. 3.1. Everything works fine, except that it does not want to fetch my mail from my ISP. Every thing else seems to be working fine.

When the server dails my ISP to collect mail the following error message shows on the servers screen;

Jan 12 18:46:34 home0 kernel: tcp_v4_rebuild_header(): not valid sock addrs: saddr=00000000 rcv_saddr=00000000

Any ideas?

Does e-smith support dailup users for e-mail?

Many thanks for a great product, I have recommended it to a freind or two as a easy to setup internet server.

When Ver. 4.0 comes out am going to have to twist a freinds arm to D/L it for me.

Regards,

Russell

[Russell Tiedt]

It seem fetchmail is timing out from message recieved from cron;

Date sent:         16 Jan 2000 15:05:00 -0000
From:              root@rusty.org.za (Cron Daemon)
To:                root@rusty.org.za
Subject:           Cron /etc/fetchmail

fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting to connect to server pop.ibi.co.za.
fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from pop.ibi.co.za
fetchmail: Query status=7

What is the cuase and where can I change the settings in e-smith without
bollocksing the whole works?

[Bart Koppers]

Russell Tiedt wrote:

>
> What is the cuase and where can I change the settings in
> e-smith without bollocksing the whole works?

Put in a wait after the dialup-processes, before starting /etc/fetchmail.

Fetchmail tries to get some adresses, which it cannot resolve in the default
timeout.
Also, the defaultroute to the ppp0-interface may not (yet) have been adapted or set.

BTW, do you use /etc/fetchmail  to bringup the link? That gave the same errors om my box. Resolution: bringup link first, then call /etc/fetchmail from /etc/ppp/ip-up.local

Bart.