On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] wrote:
- To make this more complete, this is when fetching from my local machine with
- fetchmail:
-
- fetchmail:
- [number1@liquid number1]$ fetchmail -p POP3 -u number1 mail.deltacomputers.no
- Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
- 1 message for number1 at mail.deltacomputers.no (768 octets).
- reading message 1 of 1 (768 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost
- failed
- fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.deltacomputers.no
- fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
The SMTP error indicates that fetchmail could not connect to an MTA for
local delivery. POP is working fine. fetchmail is a mail retrieval and
forwarding utility. It does not deliver the mail. It retrieves mail from
a remote server and hands it off to the local delivery mechanism. This
means that you need sendmail or an equivalent running. I know this seems
a little complicated but it provides considerable flexibility in retrieval
and delivery.
If you want to retrieve your mail using POP, why not just use a POP
client like Netscape or Kmail?
- server:
- Feb 8 23:51:30 borg ipop3d[3895]: pop3 service init from 213.184.210.250
- Feb 8 23:51:35 borg ipop3d[3895]: Login user=number1
- host=liquid.realityx.net [213.184.210.250] nmsgs=1/1
- Feb 8 23:51:48 borg ipop3d[3895]: Logout user=number1
- host=liquid.realityx.net [213.184.210.250] nmsgs=1 ndele=0
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