Re: [expert] Alternative to postfix

[Christian A Str�mmen [Number1/NumeroUno]]

On Friday 09 February 2001 02:36, you wrote:
> 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?

You're misunderstanding me, kmail, netscape, outlook,  ALL fails in the same 
way.  The only reason that I added the fetchmail output was that this is the 
only text-output I get.

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