Re: Fetchmail--SMTP connect to localhost failed
On Sun 09/05/99 05:07PM, Kent West wrote:
> I found several references to this in the archives, but no solution.
> When I run "fetchmail -k mail.acu.edu" and provide my password for
> westk@mail.acu.edu I get a bunch of "skipping message #x not flushed",
> followed by "SMTP connect to localhost failed".
>
> Near as I can figure from the archive postings it's got something to do
> with my exim.conf file. I've also seen a reference to .fetchmailrc, but
> I can't locate such a file on my system. I've tried
> uninstalling/reinstall fetchmail, and re-running eximconf several times.
> I can fetchmail from another Debian box, so I know it can be done.
>
> I can send mail from this box to my own account on this box, as well as
> to my account on my ISP (university campus). I think I've tried every
> permutation on the "qualify_domain" and "local_domains" lines in
> exim.conf, but either I haven't hit the right combination or it's got
> something to do with other lines in that file (or something completely
> different).
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
I had this problem too. I fixed it by adding localhost to the list of
local_domains.
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