[bug-mailutils] Re: help required: how to get mailutils-comsatd biff notification

[sh4r4d]

Hi Sergey,

> Version 1.2 is more than two years old by now. I strongly recommend
> to upgrade to the recent Mailutils version (which is 2.1, released
> on 10 Sep 2009).

Installed 2.1 from source 

> I don't know what offlinemap is and what is has to do with biff notification.

offlineimap sync two different imap accounts.

,----[from offlineimap wiki]
| OfflineIMAP is a tool to simplify your e-mail reading. With OfflineIMAP,
| you can read the same mailbox from multiple computers. You get a current
| copy of your messages on each computer, and changes you make one place
| will be visible on all other systems. For instance, you can delete a
| message on your home computer, and it will appear deleted on your work
| computer as well. OfflineIMAP is also useful if you want to use a mail
| reader that does not have IMAP support, has poor IMAP support, or does
| not provide disconnected operation.
`----

> Verify the following:
> 
> 1. Is comsat listening on its port?
> Run
>   netstat -an|grep :512
> and verify its output. It should display something similar to
> 
> udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:512             0.0.0.0:*

No, my machine output is like 

 $ netstat -an|grep :512
 udp6       0      0 :::512                  :::*                               

 
> 2. Is the delivery agent able to reach the IP address comsat listens
> on?
> The IP address in question is shown in the output from [1].
> 

I do not have good idea about MDA, but in postfix I guess it is maildrop
I do not know how to test that it can access ip address.


> 3. Does your tty have the `execute' bit on?
> Run
>   ls -l `tty`
> and verify its output.

Now it i on.

  $ cat /etc/inetd.conf look like
  # biff        dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/sbin/comsatd comsatd -i
  comsat dgram  udp wait  root  /usr/local/sbin/comsatd            comsatd -c 
/etc/comsat.conf

and /etc/comsat.conf is empty.


In maillog I am seeing repeated error 

   /var/log/mail.err:Oct  7 23:12:52 localhost comsatd[28713]: recvfrom: Socket 
operation on non-socket


> If the answer on all three questions above is `yes', send some mail
> to your account and watch if the notification message appears on the
> console. If it does not, than your MDA does not send notifications at
> all.

at for Q1 answer is not yes, Q2 output is not same, Q3 answer is yes.
you might have some idea about maillog error.

--
Regards and Thanks,
-sharad