Re: HELP: More Problems Configuring Email
When Jack Kern wrote, I replied:
For reference my .fetchmailrci, as previously attached:
poll mail.my_isp.net protocol pop3 username rjw password secret_word
>
> On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 10:33:11AM -0300, Ralph Winslow wrote:
> > When Art Lemasters wrote, I replied:
> [...]
> > wasn't much help. My current state is:
> >
> > when I rune fetchmail, it responds:
> > fetchmail: 36 messages at mail.my_isp.net
> > reading message 1 of 36 (1732 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to
> > localhost failed: connection refused
> > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.my_isp.net
> [...]
>
> fetchmail is configured by default to use smtp to receive mail.
> Check /etc/inetd.conf. It should have something like the following.
>
> #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services.
> smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.smtpd
>
> fetchmail is trying to use in.smtpd and the connection is being refused.
But I thought that the phrase "protocol pop3" in ~rjw/.fetchmailrc
would make fetchmail use pop3 instead. In any case, I found an
active line for smtp, and commented-out lines for pop-2 and pop-3.
I commented smtp out and pop-3 in, but even after a /etc/sbin/netbase
restart, sendmail still gets the same SMTP errors. Was ist lose? Auch
I found /etc/init.d/exim and /etc/init.d/netbase have references to smtp
and inetd; exim's specify smtp, I used netbase to restart inetd after
editing /etc/inetd.conf. Since exim is an mta that supplies a sendmail
command (but no fetchmail), I'm guessing that I can leave it alone.
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> jkern@klis.com Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux
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Ralph Winslow rjw@nac.net
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