Re: fetchmail
--- Steve George <steve@blah.dircon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 04:44:06PM +0200, Johan
> Dewaele wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > I get fetchmail to search the 2 mailboxes but when
> fetchmail attempts to
> > dowload the messages
> > I get following error :
> >
> > [Sun Aug 22][16:14:20]dewaele jdewaele:dewaele$
> fetchmail
> > fetchmail: No mail for jenkdewaele2 at
> pop.mail.yahoo.com
> > 1 message for jdew1008 at mail.freebel.net (689
> octets).
> > reading message 1 of 1 (689 octets) fetchmail:
> SMTP connect to localhost
> > failed: Connection refused
>
> Looks like your mail server isn't running or
> accepting connections from localhost. See if you
> can telnet to localhost on port 25 - if you can't it
> isn't running which is why fetchmail can't deliver
> to you locally.
>
> You will need to either get exim running (don't know
> if it runs from inetd or a separate rc so can't
> offer more firm advice). I think another option, if
> you are not expecting to receive SMTP mail, is to
> get fetchmail to deliver directly to a local
> delivery program without using SMTP - I think the
> man pages say more about this but I have never used
> it ;-)
>
> Good luck,
>
> Steve
>
Oh, I took that one for granted : exim wasn't running !
Now it is.
thanks,
Johan
===
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