[fetchmail] [Thankyou] - daemon prob fedora core 3

[Harry Iawatha]

Look I know there's a convention that you don't
say thankyou because its extra traffic but some
usenet conventions don't allow humanity and this
one I will ignore.

Thankyou everyone who contributed to solving my
difficulty with it.  The problem was I had an
interval value which was very large so the
site never got polled.

All clear and running fine now.

Thanks again

Harry Iawatha.

> Matthias Andree wrote:
> 
>> Please reply to the list with a full quote. Reply-To is set. I'm not
>> Cc:ing the list as I am not sure if I have permission to do so.
> 
> 
> I'm assuming this implies I have your permission to post your
> comment above.  Sorry, it was unintentional.
> 
>>
>>
>>>> You really need to provide detailed information then, relevant excerpts
>>>
>>>
>>>> from the output you get when running "fetchmail -Nvv" (with daemon mode
>>>
>>>
>>>> on) for instance.
>>>
>>>
>>> I've been in an Internet desert for a few days and couldn't
>>> reply.  Thanks for this suggestion.  Sometimes when there
>>> is a mail there to be fetched I get an "Invalid Command" from
>>> fetchmail but it still seems to fetch the mail ok'  It
>>> isn't clear where it comes from - it goes to STDERR and
>>> so far when I've done 2>&1 it hasn't occurred (at least there's
>>> nothing I can find in the trace.
>>
>>
>>
>> Please try fetchmail -Nvv 2>&1 to get more logging, and please show the
>> configuration file (remember to blank the passwords) or the output of
>> fetchmail -V (which does not contain passwords).
>>
>>
>>> The worse problem shows in this below:
>>>
>>> fetchmail: POP3< +OK Bye-bye.
>>> fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying mail.plus.net (protocol POP3) at Fri 29 Apr 
>>> 2005 00:29:28 BST: poll completed
>>> fetchmail: not swapping UID lists, no UIDs seen this query
>>> fetchmail: Query status=1 (NOMAIL)
>>
>>
>>
>> This is the actual "problem" IF you say there is a message waiting,
>> UNLESS it's the "FOLDER INTERNAL MAILBOX DATA" mail that UW-IMAP related
>> software stores in your upstream mailbox, some POP3 servers (for
>> instance, ipop3d) hide these.
> 
> 
> not quite.  I set fetchmail running then placed a mail there
> for it to find (so there correctly no mail at startup but
> then when there was mail it didn't find it - because it
> didn't wake up).  All *may* now seem clear (see below)
> 
>>
>>> fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file.
>>> fetchmail: sleeping at Fri 29 Apr 2005 00:29:28 BST
>>> fetchmail: awakened at Fri 29 Apr 2005 00:31:08 BST
>>> fetchmail: interval not reached, not querying mail.plus.net
>>
>>
>>
>> You configured an "interval", which means that fetchmail will only query
>> the server ever interval-th waking up and skipping this server interval
>> - 1  times after waking - re-read the man page and please do report if
>> it is unclear in this regard.
>>
>> Remove the "interval" from your configuration file if you want to poll
>> your upstream server every 100 seconds.
> 
> 
> right.  Now I got it figured if I correctly understandyou ...
> 
> the config file has both a
> 
> set daemon 100
> 
> and
> 
> interval 100
> 
> This was written by fetchmailconf originally when I was
> experimenting with different fetchmail features. Are these
> two things in conflict ?
> 
> Here's the config file edited to remove identifiable stuff
> 
> set postmaster "..."
> set nobouncemail
> set no spambounce
> set properties ""
> set daemon 100
> poll mail.plus.net with proto POP3 timeout 20 interval 100 and options 
> no dns
>     localdomains .....
>        user '...' there with password '...' is '...' here
> 
> I'm not using fetchmail for multidrop but the incoming does
> contain multidrop stuff (the ISP has a user-configurable
> mailbox redirection mechanism so I am delivering it locally
> to one user that has some procmail processing to split it up
>  - its actually going to lists on a listserv - they do
> provide smtp delivery but its either all smtp or all pop
> and I need pop on some mailboxes).  Then procmail side
> of things is all working fine (I say this because I know
> people will say "why are you doing that madness" - but it
> all works fine enough and is safe, no loop danger!).
> 
> harry
> 
>>
>>
>>> So from my niaive corner I'm wondering .... could it be
>>> related to time representation ?  Does FC3 represent
>>> time dffferntly to other linuxes ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Fedora does some things differently from other Linux distributions, but
>> I am not convinced that it's Fedora's fault yet.
>>
> 
> sure does.  feels a bit MS to me.  but then RedHat always did.
> 
> harry
> 
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