Fetchmail/webmin

[cheewilly]

I'm a new RedHat user. Just set up webmin, sendmail, and fetchmail for the first time. Sendmail works, but fetchmail I can't get to work, either through webmin, (it pulls up nothing and constantly tells me that it can't start another instance of fetchmail while a background fetchmail is going) or from a terminal window in Redhat 9.0. It gives me the message that localhost.localdomain != the name of my server. This message I get when logged in as root, or from within my own user directory when logged in as myself, and trying to run the fetchmail command. I've combed through my network settings to try to resolve this one, but no luck. Anyone who's ever used fetchmail successfully via webmin, I'd be grateful for any insight you can give me on these issues. I've only got a couple of days to make this work; after that, things are going to get ugly for me.

thanks in advance

 

[RhythmAce]

Are you trying to use fetchmail as a pop3 server? I don't think that is what it was designed for. Fetchmail will poll all your e-mail accounts on other servers and store them in one place. You will still need a POP3/IMAP server. RedHat comes with these servers and they run as daemons under xinetd.

 

[cheewilly]

I do have sendmail running as my pop 3 server. My .fetchmailrc file has fetchmail set to poll the server every 600 seconds. But, when I go into webmin, fetchmail icon, and click on 'check all servers' that's when I get the message that another instance of fetchmail is running. My user .fetchmailrc file is set to poll the server I'm running POP3 on, but it's also the same server fetchmail is installed on. I've tried adding a command to the .fetchmailrc file that will kill the existing daemon on login, which I assumed would allow a new daemon process to start and query my server right then. This seems to work occasionally, in that I don't get the error message, but I still don't pull any mail from the server, even though I know that POP3 is running.

thanks for your response...any other suggestions would be highly appreciated.