Re: fetchmail/smail trouble

[Paul Miller <paul@3dillusion.com>]

downgrading to the bo- smail package worked.  ...someone should remove
those bad smail packages from bo-update and hamm...

Thanks

On 31 Jan 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:

>    smail is refusing connections by fetchmail... there are no error messages
>    in any of the smail log files.  I'm using the smail package from
>    bo-updates on Debian/hamm w/ procmail...   Anyone have an idea on what is
>    wrong?
> 
> Usually this is caused by DNS problems; i.e., fetchmail tries to
> connect to the local machine through its DNS name, but the DNS name
> doesn't point to a real machine so it gets a connection refused error.
> 
> Workaround: Add 
> 
> 	mda "/usr/sbin/smail -oem YOUR-USERNAME"
> 
> to the end of each `poll' line in .fetchmailrc.
> 


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