Re: installation

Marco Paganini <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.active-spam-killer.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Ingo!

> sendmail is running (chkconfig):
> sendmail       	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
> but there is NO executable sendmail anywhere. only sendmail.sendmail.
> guess the daemon knows that ... :-)
> do i even NEED sendmail. i just installed it know, thinking ask may need 
> it, or the .forward mechanism may not work without ... ???

Hmmm... This is unusual! You need an MTA installed (sendmail, exim, postfix,
whatever) installed in order to send your confirmations. I believe fetchmail
also needs it (even though I *think* it can also deliver mail directly).
Are you sure you don't have an mta there? Try:

rpm -ql | grep -i sendmail

If that is not fruitful, try:

rpm -ql | grep -i exim
rpm -ql | grep -i postfix
rpm -ql | grep -i qmail

> i use fetchmail to retrieve mails from the server:
> 
> set daemon  60 
> poll        pollux.wzw.tum.de
> protocol    pop3
> user        ingo
> pass        xxxxxxxxx
> keep

Should be working OK... What does your MTA logfile say (Usually
/var/log/maillog or something similar)?

> but all my mails are completely lost. not even a log file.
> as soon as i delete the .forward file, they come through, again.
> as soon as i put it back in, they disappear.

Check /var/log/maillog. I think we'll obtain some clues there.

Regards,
Paga

> what am i doing wrong ???
> 
> 10000 thanks for any help. ask seems like such a good idea ...
> 
> greetings
> 
> ingo
> 
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