Re: Fetchmail Problems
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 06:39:56PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 04/16/07 18:33, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 05:57:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> >> On 04/16/07 17:26, Michael Pobega wrote:
> >>> I'm having trouble fetching my mail with fetchmail. All it does it say:
> >>>
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> >>> 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:
> >>> 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...
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> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> Cc to mikepobega@gmail.com if you can, since I'll only be using
> >>> pobega@gmail.com for SMTP through Mutt.
> >> What MTA are you running?
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> > ssmtp, as I said in my original message.
>
> Ah, right. Sorry.
>
> Is ssmtp a daemon? Maybe you need to restart it. Have you tried
> looking in /var/log/mail.log?
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There doesn't seem to be a daemon for it.
What MTA would you recommend in place of it in this case?
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