Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
you sure you got a MTA running on localhost ? such as sendmail qmail or
something similar (telnet localhost 25 to test)
fetchmail resends the mail through the local mail server to deliver it
locally.
nate
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On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been playing with my system and have somehow either broken exim or
> fetchmail. When I try to do fetchmail it comes up with:
>
> # fetchmail
> fetchmail: 19 messages for mark at adam.ist.flinders.edu.au (50738
> octets).
> fetchmail: reading message 1 of 19 (2154 octets) . (log message
> incomplete)
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from
> adam.ist.flinders.edu.au
> fetchmail: Query status=10
>
> Now I can't work out what I could have done to affect this. Some time ago
> I upgraded a few of my packages to potato ones. I decided today to
> downgrade my system back to slink (along with slink-proposed-updates and
> slink version of xfree 3.3.4). There doesn't seem to be any easy way of
> doing this so I used dpkg to manually fix things, and then ran
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> just to make sure everything was okay.
>
> What can the problem be? Any ideas? Please cc a copy of any reply,
> directly to me thanks, as I am currently unable to be subscribed to the
> list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark.
>
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