Re: smtp error during fetchmail

[Jonathan Matthews <jaycee@jaycee.uklinux.net>]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 06:37:14PM +0000, p wrote:
> debs,
> 
> when i fetchmail, i get an smtp error:
> 
> fetchmail: smtp connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: smtp transaction error while fetching from pcisys.net
> fetchmail: query status=10 (smtp)
> 
> suggestions?
> 
> thx.
> 
> b.

Check that /etc/hosts.allow contains a line like

exim: <whatever...>, 127.0.0.1

or a line corresponding to whatever MTA you're using.

For me, this line is:
exim: 192.168.0.0/24, 127.0.0.1

There might be other reasons for your problem, but that's the one that
bit me last time I moved my mail setup around.

jc