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Re: Fetchmail/procmail problem after upgrading
- From: Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:03:55 -0400
- Subject: Re: Fetchmail/procmail problem after upgrading
- References: <17121.15771.233801.889256@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
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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