Re: fetchmail smtp connect failed

[Kenward Vaughan <kaynjay@igalaxy.net>]

Joseph de los Santos wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have read in the documentation that if smtp failed connect during
> fetchmail -v means that fetchmail can't connect to my localhost. it was
> advised that I try to check if I can telnet to port 25 on my
...

I just ran into this myself and realized after some thought that I had
configured exim **after** its installation (i.e. not during the apt-get
"routine").  Exim had not been started, so fetchmail failed.  It took a
reboot later to discover that I needed to run 

update-rc.d exim defaults

to make it stay that way...  ;-)

Perhaps your MTA is in the same boat??


HTH,

Kenward