Re: fetchmail not fetching

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>]

On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Keith Alen Vance wrote:

> I can not get fetchmail to work on one of my Linux computers. When I do 
> fetchmail I get the following message:
> 
> fetchmail: 1 message at nfn11988@gator.naples.net.
> reading message 1 (1772 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from www.naples.net
> fetchmail: 1 message (1 seen) at nfn11988@gator.naples.net.
> skipping message 1 not flushed
> 
> I have the same .fetchmailrc running on another Linux machine and it 
> works fine. Is there more to configuring fetchmail than making a 
> .fetchmailrc file. That is all I did on my other Linux machine and it 
> worked fine.

This is most likely a problem with smail or sendmail (or whatever you are
using), not fetchmail.  Look at the appropriate configuration file and you
should find the problem.

Bob

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