fetchmail stopped working after emerge world!

paperwings

Hi,

I did an emerge world, and now fetchmail does not work. Fetchmail will start, log in to the server correctly, begin to download, and then freeze.
If I run fetchmail -v, after about 5 minutes I get the message:

smtp listener protocol error

EDIT: oh now it says SMTP connection to localhost failed

maybe postfix was updated... I'll have to try to figure it out....

Can anyone help?

Thanks

bkhl · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 1:05 pm Post subject:

Can you telnet to your mail server? Like this:

paperwings · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 2:54 pm Post subject:

yup. That was one of the first things I tried. It lets me in, but never displays anything but:

bkhl · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 3:22 pm Post subject:

Apparently it's really postfix that is erroneous, since all is well up to the point of delivering the message.

Are you possibly running an unstable version of postfix? Then try to downgrade it.

Can it deliver mail piped to /usr/sbin/sendmail?

Also, you can try to deliver a mail by hand via telnet localhost 25. It might help you see where the delivery goes wrong.

paperwings · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 3:35 pm Post subject:

Yeah it has to be postfix. nmap shows smtp running on port 25.
How do I manually deliver a message to port 25, or pipe to sendmail?

Postfix version is 2.0.3

Oh I should add that I can email a test message to myself with no problem,
but if I log on to another machine and try to mail myself at this machine, it does not work.

Thanks!

paperwings · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 3:51 pm Post subject:

OKAY!!
it is working now.
I downgraded to 2.0.2, and everything is fine. Is there a bug in 2.0.3 then?

Thanks

bkhl · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 4:45 pm Post subject:

Probably. There is a reason that new packages are masked for a while, you know. :wink: