You're not running a mail transfer agent. Check that you have installed one of sendmail, postfix, exim, qmail, smail, (any others that I'm unaware of). If you're trying to run from inetd, check that your /etc/inetd.conf is configured correctly. For example, on one of my simple hosts, I have: odin@bolverk:[~]$ grep smtp /etc/inetd.conf smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs Run: # killall -HUP inetd as root to make sure that the inetd that is running knows about the contents of this configuration file. Otherwise, look through your /etc/init.d directory for scripts named after the above mentioned programs, and start it, for example: # /etc/init.d/sendmail start Test this by running 'telnet localhost 25' you should see something like: odin@bolverk:[~]$ telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 bolverk ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Sat, 03 Jun 2000 23:42:55 -0400 As far as an easy to use mail user agent goes, I'd suggest pine (in spite of the bad license, so no-one flame me for that one). It's not the easiest to get going, though, since you need to build it from source. Fortunately, the Debian packages make this easy. # apt-get install pine396-src pine396-diffs then look in /usr/src and follow the directions which are clearly documented. You might want to use the mailer that comes with Netscape if you want something graphical. If you do that, then you can skip the whole process of setting up a mail transfer agent, but you will lose some functionality that you may (or may not) miss as you become a more advanced user of the system. HTH -Dan On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 08:22:25PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello Group, > I have a fetchmail question. Im running potato with kernel 2.2.15 and when i > try "fetchmail" I get an error: > > 1 message for neutec at pacbell.net (1033 octets). > reading message 1 of 1 (1033 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost > failed > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pacbell.net > fetchmail: Query ststus=1 (SMTP) > > So where am I going wrong here??? > thanks for your help > PS.. what is a easy to use program to send mail? -- "... the most serious problems in the Internet have been caused by unenvisaged mechanisms triggered by low-probability events; mere human malice would never have taken so devious a course!" - RFC 1122 section 1.2.2
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