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Re: Fetchmail/procmail problem after upgrading


Pete,

On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:40:27PM -0500, Pete McCann wrote:
> $ fetchmail
> 28 messages for mccap at example.lucent.com.
> reading message mccap@example.lucent.com:1 of 28 (2466 header octets)  (2063 body octets) fetchmail: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error
> fetchmail: socket error while delivering to SMTP host example.lucent.com
> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
> 
> [snip]
> 
> What should I try?

Try to isolate the problem.  Is it fetchmail, procmail, or the two
together?

Try procmail at the command line. Does it work?

Try (temporarily) to use a fake MDA that is a shell script.  Does this
work?  If you try this, then make a copy of your /var/spool/mail/mccap
file first just in case...

Jason

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