Re: [Fetchmail-users] error with preconnect

[grarpamp <gra...@gm...>]

On 2/10/20, Joe Acquisto-j4 <jo...@j4...> wrote:
> /etc/fetchmailrc contains:

Consider trying the one statement per line multiline format.
This avoids line wrapping past screen, avoids filler words,
makes quotes pairs easier to check, each line and option
can be commented, indent denotes pre/post and all the options
as valid only inside a poll, easy to look at / validate / edit,
and more etc...

poll mail.somehost.com
 preconnect "/bin/date >> /var/log/fetchmail.log"
 proto imap
 ssl
 # sslcertck
 sslfingerprint "blah"
 timeout 120
 username 'me...@ga...'
 password 'B1nksSt1nks'
 folder 'Inbox','Junk'
 fetchlimit 10
 # envelope Delivered-to
 to 'me...@co...'
 # smtphost  192.168.ccc.ddd
 # keep
 # check


When forwarding 'to' one singledrop,
multidrop envelope seems quite moot.

> Trying to connect to ::1/25...connection failed.
> fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [::1/25] failed: Connection
> refused.

SMTP is not running on localhost IPv6 ::1/25.
Run it, tell it where it is, fix dns, firewall, IPv4/6 stack, etc

> This worked when fetchmail and the local mail server were not on the same
> box.
>
> "postconnect" works, but places the time stamp after the connection.
> Preconnect prior to poll produces a syntax error on startup.
>
> A minor issue, but curious as to what I am mis understanding about
> preconnect.