From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: whitnl73@juno.com Subject: Re: safety/permissions Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:50:54 -0500 (EST) Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030324.165557.8.0.whitnl73@juno.com> References: <15999.13082.237069.193180@ksys.rug.ac.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <15999.13082.237069.193180@ksys.rug.ac.be> List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kurt.sys@rug.ac.be Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Kurt Sys wrote: > Hello all, > > I don't know if there were (a lot) of responses to my last mail(s), > since I again did some 'uncareful' things and I lost now and then some > mail. Anyway, for the people who want to know, the problem is solved > now completely. It was something with my fetchmail configuration. I > don't fully understand why it used to work but it didn't work when I > reinstalled Linux Debian, but ok... Here's the solution: > > My .fetchmailrc-file looks now like this: > ----- > set postmaster "kurt" > set bouncemail > set spambounce > set properties "" > set daemon 500 > poll allserv.rug.ac.be with proto IMAP > user 'ksys' there with password 'xxxx' is 'kurt' here > options smtphost 'ksys.rug.ac.be' forcecr ssl fetchall > ----- > > I had to add the option: > smtphost 'ksys.rug.ac.be' > > I guess another config-file, somewhere is /etc is wrong and fetchmail > reads that file if it doesn't find the 'smtphost'-option. Could this > be right? > Not exactly. smtphost defaults to 'localhost'. > > Anyway, > thanks for your help, > Kurt. Lawson -- ---oops--- ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs