[Fetchmail-users] The daemon runs (seen in top) but never tries to connect

[Ian B. <an...@fa...>]

Hi,

I have fetchmail running on other machines with no issues.

On new FreeBSD server (my first ever) I have the fetchmail daemon running but although showing in the maillog it does not actually run.
It never wakes up and fetches any mail.

The output from it run as 'fetchmail -V -v --nodetach --nosyslog' is pasted below

The last line in maillog is:

Nov  2 14:21:00 myserver fetchmail[4581]: starting fetchmail 6.3.26 daemon

and there we sit.

If run as 'fetchmail -vvv  --nodetach --nosyslog' it works fine.

I copied fetchmailrc out from /usr/local/etc to my home directory and renamed it .fetchmailrc and then edited accordingly.
User = me, group = fetchmail. I added me to the fetchmail group with no change in operation.

Am using Postfix.

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# i have edited out my domain, my isp,  my passwd so hope that hasn't fouled it up below

This is fetchmail release 6.3.26+GSS+RPA+SDPS+SSL+OPIE+NLS.

Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Eric S. Raymond
Copyright (C) 2004 Matthias Andree, Eric S. Raymond,
                   Robert M. Funk, Graham Wilson
Copyright (C) 2005 - 2012 Sunil Shetye
Copyright (C) 2005 - 2013 Matthias Andree
Fetchmail comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. For details,
please see the file COPYING in the source or documentation directory.
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)

Fallback MDA: (none)
FreeBSD hestia.mydomain 10.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE #0 r260789: Fri Jan 17 01:46:25 UTC 2014     ro...@sn...:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
Taking options from command line and /home/nignog/.fetchmailrc
Poll interval is 600 seconds
Idfile is /home/inksi/.fetchids
Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to inksi.
Fetchmail will direct error mail to the sender.
Fetchmail will treat permanent errors as temporary (keep messages).
Options for retrieving from nignog@myd...@po...:
  True name of server is pop3.gormless.com
  This host will be queried when no host is specified.
  Password = "uncrackable".
  Protocol is POP3 (using default port).
  All available authentication methods will be tried.
  SSL protocol: ssl23.
  Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
  Default mailbox selected.
  All messages will be retrieved (--all on).
  Fetched messages will not be kept on the server (--keep off).
  Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush off).
  Oversized messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--limitflush off).
  Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
  Carriage-return stripping is disabled (stripcr off).
  Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
  Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits off).
  MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
  Idle after poll is disabled (idle off).
  Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
  Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
  No received-message limit (--fetchlimit 0).
  Fetch message size limit is 100 (--fetchsizelimit 100).
  Do binary search of UIDs during 3 out of 4 polls (--fastuidl 4).
  No SMTP message batch limit (--batchlimit 0).
  No forced expunges (--expunge 0).
  Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: localhost (defaultt)
  Spam-blocking disabled
  No pre-connection command.
  No post-connection command.
  Single-drop mode: 1 local name recognized.
        nignog
  No interface requirement specified.
  No monitor interface specified.
  No plugin command specified.
  No plugout command specified.
  No UIDs saved from this host.
  No poll trace information will be added to the Received header.
  Messages with bad headers will be rejected.

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I am in violation of all multipdrop recommendations but haven't got that far yet.

thanks for any pointers (any additional info supplied on request).
Ian