[lug] Fetchmail, smtp, procmail, and port 110

[John Karns]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Sean Reifschneider said:

> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 05:17:58PM -0600, J. Wayde Allen wrote:
> >     determining that there is mail available it sits for about 1 minute
> >     before issuing a "Can't raise smtp listener, switching to procmail"
>
> One minute lags are almost always DNS reverse resolution issues.  Look at
> the "-m" fetchmail option to force using sendmail instead of trying to
> connect to the local SMTP server.  Or, if you really want to go with SMTP
> local delivery on her box, find out if "telnet 127.1 25" connects as you'd
> expect.

My memory is a bit faded regarding the details as to whether it was due to
sending or receiving problems, but I switched off dns in the sendmail.cf
file:

O ServiceSwitchFile=/etc/mail/service-nodns.switch

Also, if you're not running sendmail as a daemon, then make sure you have
it enabled in /etc/inetd.

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net