Fetchmail piping to sendmail, DNS probs causing POP server
timeout
David Kelly
dkelly at HiWAAY.net
Fri Dec 12 19:24:26 PST 2003
On Dec 12, 2003, at 7:07 PM, Derrick Norris wrote:
> Like many of us, I get a *lot* of spam coming into my ISP-assigned
> email address. Since I originally installed this system (at release
> 4.2) I have used fetchmail piping through to sendmail to fetch from 3
> POP accounts. I don't run DNS on my box and use my ISP's DNS servers
> for resolution.
Is there some reason you pipe thru sendmail? Bypass sendmail with
something like this as the first line of your ~/.fetchmailrc file:
defaults proto pop3 fetchall mda "/usr/local/bin/procmail -d dkelly"
Everybody uses procmail, right? :-)
Make sure you have something like this at the start of your
~/.procmailrc file:
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail #you'd better make sure it exists
DEFAULT=/var/mail/$LOGNAME
--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at interactplus.com
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