Re: fetchmail problem?
On Sun, 27 Jul 1997 Martin.Bialasinski@uni-koeln.de wrote:
> On 27 Jul, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:
> >
> >> reading message 1 (2857 bytes)
> >> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Unknown error
> >> 18446744073709551615
> >> fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> >> fetchmail: POP3< -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from milo.cfw.com:
> >> Unknown error 18446744073709551615
> >> fetchmail: normal termination, status 9
> >> vtorrico$
> >
> > The way I read it fetchmail is working fine as is your IPS's POP3
> > daemon. The problem is with SMTP at your end.
> >
> > Do you have an entry in /etc/inetd.conf like:-
> > smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.smtpd
> >
> > What happens when you telnet to localhost 25?
> >
> > Check that localhost resolves to 127.0.0.1.
> >
> Hi,
>
> I had the same problem. The solution was to enter -S localhost as a
> additional option to fetchmail.
>
> I can telnet localhost 25 fine and type in a mail manualy and I can
> resolve localhost. So I don't know why this doesn't work without -S
> localhost.
>
> However, it works, so I am happy with it :-)
I had a similar problem and was advised to add a mda entry to
.fetchmailrc, which works:
mda "formail -s procmail"
After reading the previous response, I noticed that my /etc/inetd.conf
did NOT have smtp defined. Adding that also fixes the problem for me
(without the need for the mda line).
Bob
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