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

[Jerry <je...@se...>]

On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 15:40:39 +0200, Ian Balchin stated:

> 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.
> 
> ------------------------------
> # 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.
> 
> ------------------------
> 
> 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

How was "fetchmail" installed; ie, from the FreeBSD ports system or did you
download and install it from source?

-- 
Jerry