Cannot telnet on my SMTP port

[Alessandro Zaffaroni <earendil@tiscalinet.it>]

Hi all,

I'm trying to configure fetchmail to retrieve my mail from my pop3
server.
However, something goes wrong when fetchmail tries to send retrieved
messages to my SMTP port.
Fetchmail send a messages like : "SMTP connection failed"
I checked if I can telnet my SMTP port and I can't.
--> trying 127.0.0.1...
--> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: connection refused

Fetchmail FAQ suggest to fix that first; I tried to, but I wasn't
successful.

Thanks in advance for your help!
Alessandro