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Re: fetchmail gives me headache (was: Strange things like drwx--S--- with elm...)



On Aug 22, Andreas Hetzmannseder (hetzmann@netway.at) wrote:
 > This looks like it should work, don't you think? Instead I always get
 > an "SMTP Transaction error". It reads the first incoming message for a
 > few seconds, then it exits with "connection failed" and I tried it over
 > and over again...

I had a similar problem, and it took me a while to realize that the
SMTP error was not on the mail server end, it was on my local
machine.  Fetchmail delivers to port 25, which is the smtp port, which 
is what your local MTA listens to.  I bet your fetchmail
configuration is fine, and that you need to look at your MTA.  Try
/etc/init.d/sendmail reload if using sendmail, or similar for another
MTA.


-- 
Neil L. Roeth
neil@occamsrazor.net



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