Dumb error -- on that machine I'm nashjc, on others I'm john, so I need /home/nashjc/umail/inbox and it works fine. Aidan's reply presented the filename clearly. JN On 15-04-16 02:38 PM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote: > This looks like the error: > /home/john/umail/inbox: No such file or directory > > It's probably causing the formail sub-process to exit, leading to > fetchmail erroring: > fetchmail: > error writing message text > fetchmail: MDA error while fetching from nashjc [ at ] mailbox [ dot ] uottawa [ dot ] ca > <mailto:nashjc [ at ] mailbox [ dot ] uottawa [ dot ] ca> > fetchmail: Query status=6 (IOERR) > > > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca > <mailto:nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca>> wrote: > > I recently had some issues with my research (virtual) server at uOttawa. > As it was Ubuntu 12.04 decided to upgrade. Telfer "standard" is now > Centos 7, and I decided to go with that. However, I'm finding that I'm > getting an error when I do some email backups using fetchmail, > particularly in the MDA formail step. I found that leaving out the mda > line does save mail to /var/spool/nashjc OK and doesn't give the error. > I've tried 777 perms for umail and umail/inbox file. > > I'll not pretend to know much about this sort of stuff, but did have it > working OK. > > Here's my .fetchmailrc with pw obscured > > [nashjc@nash2015 ~]$ cat .fetchmailrc > set postmaster "nashjc" > set bouncemail > set no spambounce > set softbounce > set properties "" > set no showdots > > poll mailbox.uottawa.ca <http://mailbox.uottawa.ca> with proto IMAP > user 'nashjc' there with password 'xxxxxx' is 'nashjc' here > options keep fetchall > mda "formail -c >> /home/john/umail/inbox" > folder INBOX > > > And here is what happens: > > [nashjc@nash2015 ~]$ fetchmail > fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to get local > issuer certificate > fetchmail: This means that the root signing certificate (issued for > /C=CA/ST=Ontario/L=Ottawa/O=University of > Ottawa/OU=CCS/CN=mailbox.uottawa.ca <http://mailbox.uottawa.ca>) is > not in the trusted CA > certificate locations, or that c_rehash needs to be run on the > certificate directory. For details, please see the documentation of > --sslcertpath and --sslcertfile in the manual page. > fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: certificate not > trusted > fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to verify the > first certificate > fetchmail: Warning: the connection is insecure, continuing anyways. > (Better use --sslcertck!) > 40 messages for nashjc at mailbox.uottawa.ca > <http://mailbox.uottawa.ca> (folder INBOX). > reading message nashjc [ at ] mailbox [ dot ] uottawa [ dot ] ca:1 > <http://nashjc [ at ] mailbox [ dot ] uottawa [ dot ] ca:1> of 40 (1961 header octets) > .# (189500 body octets) > ***.********************.*********************.**************sh: > /home/john/umail/inbox: No such file or directory > **.********************.**************.**************.**************.*************.**************.**************.fetchmail: > error writing message text > fetchmail: MDA error while fetching from nashjc [ at ] mailbox [ dot ] uottawa [ dot ] ca > <mailto:nashjc [ at ] mailbox [ dot ] uottawa [ dot ] ca> > fetchmail: Query status=6 (IOERR) > [nashjc@nash2015 ~]$ > > > Suggestions? > > Thanks in advance. > > JN > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca <mailto:Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca> > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > >