[fetchmail]fetchmail to Microsoft exchange 2000

[Rob MacGregor]

On Apr 12, 2005 5:37 PM, Rob <rob@thehostmasters.com> wrote:
>  
> I am on a Fedora Core 2 box running fetchmail 6.25 
>   
> here is my .fetchmailrc file 
>   
>     defaults protocol pop3
>     poll mail.domain.com 
>   
> user "rob@domain.com" there with pass "1234" smtphost 192.168.0.223 is * 

You probably want to set the smtphost globally, rather than for the
user,but if it works...
   
> when I run fetchmail I get this as a response(domain names have been
> replaced to protected the innocent)  :) 

Really needed a run of "fetchmail -v -v" to show what's going on

> fetchmail: nameserver failure while looking for `stewy' during poll of
> mail.domain.com.
> fetchmail: nameserver failure while looking for `stewy' during poll of
> mail.domain.com.
> . not flushed

Knowing what caused those would be useful (see above and below).

> stewy is the hostname of the hosting provider email server 
>   
> Then I never see/get those emails  on my exchange server??? 

That's where the logs from your Exchange server are critical.  The
logs suggest that the mail was passed to the Exchange server (though
the lack of the "-v -v" means we can't be certain).  The question is
what did Exchange do with it...

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