Re: fetchmail, mutt, mail
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:58:59PM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote:
| Hi,
| what is going wrong?
|
| Dialing in to my ISP (with pppd) and fetching mails (with fetchmail)
| works well. But then I get the message "SMPT connect to localhost
| failed"
Do you have an MDA (or MTA) installed on your system? fetchmail needs
to hand off the messages to something else, such as procmail,
sendmail, exim, postfix, etc.
| respectively (using fetchmail -S hostname) "This message is
| MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand".
Where does this come from? mutt can handle MIME just fine.
| * Where can I see/set my local smtphostname (or should I set my domainname)?
Probably in the config of your MTA.
| * Sending myself a mail (with mutt) doesn't work - which address
| should I use (root or root@hostname doesn't work)?
Mutt needs an MTA to send (transfer) the message somewhere. Either
setup an MTA/MDA on your system if you want to deliver locally, or set
up ssmtp to accept the message and hand it off to a real SMTP server.
HTH,
-D
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