Thus spake Paul E Condon:
> Thanks to help from several debianers, I now have exim working.
> (i.e. if you see this message it is working for sending mail)
> But fetchmail is not yet working. I look at syslog and see that
> the connection to the ISP is being refkused. i.e.:
>
> Dec 16 18:34:00 cmn fetchmail[543]: fetchmail: POP3 connection to quiknet.com failed: Connection refused
> Dec 16 18:33:58 cmn fetchmail[543]: 28 messages (28 seen) for pecondon at mail2.quiknet.com (80419 octets).
>
> ( I have the same ISP polled twice, because I am noo URLs is the right one, but they are both refused.)
>
> So, what diagnostics might I run to get a clue as to why the connection is refused?
>
> Thanks for your continued support.
>
> Paul
It looks like the second entry - mail2.quiknet.com - is correct, as it
sees 28 messages there. The eaisest way to debug is to write a
~/.fetchmailrc file that polls only this server, with lines something
like:
set postmaster "paul"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
poll mail2.quiknet.com with proto POP3
user 'user' there with password 'secret' is 'paul' here options keep stripcr
and run fetchmail as auser - that is, turn off the daemon mode if you
have it running. It can run verbosely, like so :
fetchmail -v -v
Repost the output, and maybe doublecheck man fetchmail about hte keep
option - I remember that you'll want it while debugging, but not if
the syntax is correct.
HTH,
Steve
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