Re: fetchmail & smail
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 06:12:43PM +0100, Ole J.Tetlie wrote:
> [Please CC replies]
>
> Hi,
>
> I've tried to set up fetchmail to get mail from my university-account and
> deliver it locally to smail on port 25. Telnetting to port 25 goes well.
When
> I run 'fetchmail -v' however; the following happens:
[snip]
> reading message 1 of 42 (1536 header bytes)
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to apollo failed: Connection refused
>
> apollo is my local computer. I believe my .fetchmailrc is correct. Has
anyone
> got a clue?
I had this problem with exim a while ago. IIRC the problem was that exim
didn't like the mail as it came from an unknown computer (or maybe it was
that fetchmail wasn't filling in some headers fully). Try telling smail
that it accepts posts from "apollo" and "localhost". Alternatively try
telling fetchmail to send the email to smail like this (this is for exim):
poll mail.zetnet.co.uk
proto pop3
user adrian.bridgett is bridgett here
password XXXXXXXXX
fetchall
mda "exim -bm %s "
email: adrian.bridgett@poboxes.com | Debian Linux - www.debian.org
http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable
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