Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed

[Shao Zhang <shao@linuxfreak.com>]

Hi,
	In your fetchmailrc file, did you specify which MDA to use?
	If you did not, then fetchmail will just send them to localhost
	at port 25.

	try this: telnet localhost 25 to see if you have anything
	running on port 25.

	Two ways to fix this:
		If you want to run exim as a daemon, then modify your
		fetchmailrc file to use exim as the MDA. 
		something like

		"user xxxx there has passwd xxxx is xxxx here and want
		use mda "exim -bs"

		my syntax is wrong, plz check the man page for details.


		OR you can modify your /etc/inet.conf to listen to port
		25 for incoming connections. There is already a line
		there, you just need to uncomment it out.

	Hope this helps.
Shao.

Mark Phillips [mark@ist.flinders.edu.au] 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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