Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, nate wrote:
> you sure you got a MTA running on localhost ? such as sendmail qmail or
> something similar (telnet localhost 25 to test)
# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.
This doesn't look too good does it???
I am using exim. Does it have a daemon running that checks for incoming?
When I do "ps aux | grep exim" it doesn't find anything and when I do
"/etc/init.d/exim restart" it doesn't fix anything.
Thanks for your help.
Mark.
> 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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