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

[dan radom]

* J. Wayde Allen (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us) wrote:
> 
> On a different note, I've recently been setting up a home network, and
> have managed to cause problems with my wife's fetchmail
> installation.  This is also a KRUD system and seemed to be able to pop
> mail from her dialup account without any problems.  Since installing the
> ethernet card I've developed a number of questions:
> 
>    - How does one configure the ppp dialup to coexist with the ethernet
>      link?  Actually, they both work, but in order to get a ppp connection
>      I have to shutdown the eth0 network.  I'm fairly certain that this is
>      due to the need for the dialup server to set the local IP address
>      whereas my eth0 interface assumes that the network uses a fixed
>      IP.  Ultimately the plan is to migrate off of the dialup service, so
>      having to drop the eth0 interface to talk isn't a big problem, but I
>      was curious is there is a way to fix this?

sounds like you just need the appropriate pppd options.  try defaultroute in /etc/ppp/options.  man pppd.


> 
>    - The more serious issue is that my wife's fetchmail service has gotten
>      to be very slow.  It works, but after connecting to the server and
>      determining that there is mail available it sits for about 1 minute
>      before issuing a "Can't raise smtp listener, switching to procmail"
>      or something similar.  After that things work OK.  Her .fetchmailrc
>      file also has a "port 110" line.  Not sure why that would be since I
>      think smtp traffic should normally be on port 25.
> 
> - Wayde
>   (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)
> 
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