Re: fetchmail problem

[Andreas Rippl <a.rippl@gmx.net>]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 07:36:30PM -0600, Eduard Breuer wrote:
> Here are few things that got me maybe little further please read bellow 
> with my comments and help if you can.
> thanx
> 
> I changes the .fetchmailrc file by recomendations from you guys and it 
> seems that it got me little further, but got into new error messages.
> 
> poll austrialpinusa.com
> user "pedro@austrialpinusa.com" there is pedro here
> 
> I put the whole email address, I remembered that I did it on webmail I 
> have to use my whole email address as My login. deleted the password 
> part and it requested my loging.. good
> 
> # user linux there is pedro here
> less users less pain..
> 
> #  user baka there is localbaka here;
> 
> executed the fetchmail...
> 
> pedro@sajo:~$ fetchmail -L fetchmail.log
> Enter password for pedro@austrialpinusa.com@austrialpinusa.com:
> 
> the log
> pedro@sajo:~$ cat fetchmail.log
> fetchmail: starting fetchmail 5.9.11 daemon
> fetchmail: 4 messages for pedro@austrialpinusa.com at austrialpinusa.com.
> fetchmail: reading message pedro@austrialpinusa.com@austrialpinusa.com:1 
> of 4 (1527 header octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from austrialpinusa.com
> fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
> pedro@sajo:~$
> 
> here I am lost
> help please....

Hi Eduard,

the 'SMTP connect to localhost failed' indicates that you are connecting
to your mail provider correctly as you can see that you are already
reading message one of four. But as the message is about to be passed to
your local mail transfer agent (MTA), you see that there is no
connection possible. That means that a) you don't have one installed, or
b) it is not configured correctly. Try

telnet localhost 25

For my configuration I get a response

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 cvpoly2 MasqMail 0.2.20 ESMTP

>From the above error message, you should not get a connection at all.
Then you can do 'man sendmail', to see which, if any MTA you have
installed. If there is none, you can choose one of (amongst others)
exim4, sendmail, postfix, masqmail...

I personally have come to like postfix and masqmail recently.

Good luck,

Andreas