Re: Fetchmail Problems
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:44:25PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 06:26:28PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > I'm having trouble fetching my mail with fetchmail. All it does it say:
> >
> > ==================================================================
> >
> > 9 messages for pobega@gmail.com at pop.gmail.com (36283 octets).
> > reading message pobega@gmail.com@gmail-pop.l.google.com:1 of 9 (2984
> > octets)..
> > fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed:
>
> fetchmail grabs the mail from POP and passes it to your MTA on
> localhost using the loopback device (i think that's how it works) and
> your MTA isn't answering on port 25.
>
> > Connection timed out.
> > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from
> > pobega@gmail.com@pop.gmail.com and delivering to SMTP host localhost
> > fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
> > Press any key to continue...
> >
> > ==================================================================
> >
> > I have no idea what could be wrong. As you can tell SMTP is working fine
> > (Under SSMTP), so I have no idea why fetchmail isn't working.
>
> ? I'm not sure what you mean here, but it looks to me like smtp is NOT
> working on lo interface. Can you telnet port 25 and ge tit to respond?
>
> A
>
Nope, even after setting lo (I had it commented out) it doesn't seem to
want to respond. I'm using getmail for now, but I can't figure out how
to get it to play nicely with procmail (I'm guessing this is another lo
problem?)
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