Fetchmail

[Rumpole]

Okay everyone....
I'm setting up a local mail server for mail distro on my network.
Postfix is working fine but fetchmail hangs after saying "reading message"

It never gets past this point. I'm pretty sure the settings are ok and I can download the mail with another mail program but fetchmail is refusing to finish the transaction. I've tried both POP and IMAP with the same result.

It logs into the server fine, finds the message(s) then starts to download the mail, gets to reading message and that's it.

Any ideas?


Cheers!!!

[locust]

Originally posted by Rumpole

It logs into the server fine, finds the message(s) then starts to download the mail, gets to reading message and that's it.


If you have the requisitive skillz, I suggest using tcpdump or ethereal to look at the traffic between the server and fetchmail, to see exactly which stage is locking things up. Also try running fetchmail with all the messages on .. its author holds up Fetchmail's copious logging ability as an example in his book on programming.

Sorry I don't have any specific ideas.

[Rumpole]

Thanks....I've just found the problem.
It was an error in main.cf......:(

I had;

virtual_maps = #:/etc/virtual_maps

instead of

virtual_maps = hash:/etc/virtual_maps


Sheesh....must have "thought" hash and typed #

Thanks again....