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Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused



On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 08:52:48AM -0700, root wrote:
| Hello,
| I'm doing a fresh slink install on a friend's old '486.
| I've installed fetchmail, but keep getting the error msg:
| 	fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused
| I edited /etc/exim.conf and added 'localhost' and my hostname to
| 'local_domains=' and restarted exim, but no change.
| I'm guessing that it's exim that won
| won't allow the connection.
| 
 Maybe:

 host_accept_relay=localhost

 I only run exim as needed, rather than as demon process. And it works
 just fine. Can you send mail locally?
-- 

Eric G. Miller
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