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On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 01:37:04PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote |
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> Hello everyone, |
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> Following the "Quickstart Guide to Mutt" have |
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> encountered the following problems: |
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> $fetchmail -av -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" |
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> fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying yahoo.com (protocol POP3) at |
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> Wed Jul 6 13:51:41 2005: poll started |
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> fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting to |
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> connect to server yahoo.com. |
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> fetchmail: socket error while fetching from yahoo.com |
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> fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying yahoo.com (protocol POP3) at |
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> Wed Jul 6 13:56:41 2005: poll completed |
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> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) |
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> fetchmail: normal termination, status 2 |
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> Is that protocole(POP3) correct for yahoo? |
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If you're using Yahoo.com, I believe that you have to pay for popmail |
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access. I.e., it's not part of the free package. If you do have an |
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account see http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-03.html for the |
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correct settings. |
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> Also, the guide doesn't mention it but do I need to |
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> emerge sendmail? It just says enter m in Muttpager(?) |
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> if I want to use sendmail. |
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> man mutt mentions sendmail but man sendmail drew a |
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> blank. |
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> Here's my attempt at emerging sendmail: |
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mutt needs something to provide the functionality of sendmail. |
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sendmail is a huge, complex beast, which you probably don't want to |
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administer. You only need a very basic subset of sendmail in order to |
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push your email "out the door" from your system to your ISP's smarthost. |
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ssmtp provides that basic functionality. |
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The ssmtp binary is "/usr/sbin/ssmtp", and it also usually has a symlink |
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"/usr/sbin/sendmail", for those programs that expect to see sendmail. I |
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strongly recommend removing the sendmail symlink, and inserting a dummy |
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file that cannot be overwritten, by executing the commands... |
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rm /usr/sbin/sendmail |
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touch /usr/sbin/sendmail |
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chmod 555 /usr/sbin/sendmail |
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chattr +i /usr/sbin/sendmail |
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If you set up ssmtp with the sendmail symlink, and don't watch what |
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you're doing, chatty cron jobs will send their output to "root", which |
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will go to "root@your_isp"; oops. In your .muttrc, enter the line... |
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set sendmail="/usr/sbin/ssmtp -v -d3" |
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so that mutt knows which MTA to use for sendmail-type services. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca |
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