[ale] Help needed with pine, fetchmail, sendmail - please

[Jason Day]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 09:39:48PM -0500, Jim Seymour wrote:
> fetchmail -a -k
> 13 messages for bluejay at mail.speedfactory.net (49221 octets).
> reading message 1 of 13 (3753 octets) ..fetchmail: can't even send to
> Jim!

Your SMTP server is refusing the messages for some reason.  Pine doesn't
enter the equation here, because your mail is never getting delivered.

How do you have sendmail configured?  Try this simple test: open a
terminal and type the following:

telnet localhost 25

You should get a connection and a response from sendmail.  Type this:

HELO yourdomain.name

Sendmail should say hello.

Type:

MAIL FROM:<Jim at yourdomain.name>

Sendmail should say OK, or something.

Type:

RCPT TO:<Jim at yourdomain.name>

Sendmail should again say OK, or something.

Type:

DATA

Sendmail should say something like:

354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself

Type:

hello
.

Sendmail should say OK.  Type "quit".

If you didn't get any errors, you should have a message waiting for you.
If not, check your mail logs to see why sendmail didn't like the
message.

HTH,
Jason
-- 
Jason Day                                       jasonday at
http://jasonday.home.att.net                    worldnet dot att dot net
 
"Of course I'm paranoid, everyone is trying to kill me."
    -- Weyoun-6, Star Trek: Deep Space 9
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