Re: understanding Fetchmail
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 03:23, Kordula Martin wrote:
> Hi fellow Debian fans,
>
> I'm having a problem understanding fetchmail.
> I've got fetchmail 5.9.11 which I installed from the stable package collection.
> I also have Exim 3.35 installed (which was a default install when I
> installed Woody).
>
> I have fetchmail running as a daemon and checking for mail every 60 seconds
> on 'localhost'.
> But when I use my Webmin admin app to check the servers, I get...
>
> Checking for mail on server(s) with command /usr/bin/fetchmail -v -f
> '/etc/fetchmailrc' ..
>
>
> fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying localhost (protocol POP3) at Tue Nov 11 09:32:03
> 2003: poll started
>
> POP3 connection to localhost failed: Connection refused
>
> fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying localhost (protocol POP3) at Tue Nov 11 09:32:03
> 2003: poll completed
>
> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
>
> fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying localhost (protocol POP3) at Tue Nov 11 09:32:03
> 2003: poll started
>
> POP3 connection to localhost failed: Connection refused
>
> fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying localhost (protocol POP3) at Tue Nov 11 09:32:03
> 2003: poll completed
>
> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
>
> fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying localhost (protocol POP3) at Tue Nov 11 09:32:03
> 2003: poll started
>
> POP3 connection to localhost failed: Connection refused
>
> fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying localhost (protocol POP3) at Tue Nov 11 09:32:03
> 2003: poll completed
>
> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
>
> fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying localhost (protocol POP3) at Tue Nov 11 09:32:03
> 2003: poll started
>
> POP3 connection to localhost failed: Connection refused
>
> fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying localhost (protocol POP3) at Tue Nov 11 09:32:03
> 2003: poll completed
>
> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
>
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 2
>
> .. checking failed!
> and it does not seem to matter if I change 'localhost' to the FQDN of my
> server either.
> I've been reading that fetchmail is well documented, but I've checked the
> man pages, and I'm just not getting it.
> Am I trying to use fetchmail for something it's not intended to be used for?
> My whole reason for fetchmail was to allow users to access their e-mail via
> their MUAs (e.g. Outlook Express).
Sounds like it's trying to do what it's supposed to do: pass off
the emails to your MTA, but is not able to, because of:
POP3 connection to localhost failed: Connection refused
Is exim actually running?
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