Re: Fetchmail problem: connection to localhost refused

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 19:37:45 -0700, johnrchamplin AT columbus DOT rr DOT com wrote:
> 
> Fetchmail, for reasons I can't figure out, has started refusing to
> download mail. An identitical .fetchmailrc works on a different
> laptop, both running uptodate sid.  Here's a sample error message:
> 
> 2 messages for JohnRChamplin at pop-server.columbus.rr.com (11760 octets).
> reading message JohnRChamplin@pop-server.columbus.rr.com:1 of 2 (4264 octets
> )..fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed: Connection
>  refused.
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from JohnRChamplin@pop-serv
> er.columbus.rr.com and delivering to SMTP host localhost
> fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)

Check the status of port 25 on that machine, e.g.:

# lsof -i :25
COMMAND  PID        USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
exim4   2933 Debian-exim    3u  IPv4 736372      0t0  TCP localhost:smtp (LISTEN)

# netstat -plant | grep ':25 '
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      2933/exim4 

> P.S.
> I'd be grateful if you'd copy me at JohnRChamplin@yahoo.com.

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