On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Lincoln Rutledge wrote: > > Finally the point: How do I get fetchmail to dump my mail in my spool in > the expected fashion? I have fetchmail, I have "mail", and I have what > appears to be the sendmail interface to postfix for local delivery. But > fetchmail cannot make the handoff: > > ... > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed > ... > It looks to me like postfix isn't actually running, or it isn't running as a "I'll listen on port 25" daemon, anyway. On my box... % telnet localhost 25 < I typed that Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 box.brehob.org ESMTP Postfix quit < I typed that 221 Bye Connection closed by foreign host.
> a ps gx shows: > 242 ?? Ss 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/postfix-watch > > That makes me think that local delivery is up and running. > I don't remember offhand, but it may be that that's just the process that watches for stuff dumped into a queue. My system has a couple processes running as postfix (and more when there is mail flowing. % pa | grep post root 388 1 Mon08AM 0:00.74 /usr/libexec/postfix/master postfix 609 388 Mon09AM 0:00.44 qmgr -l -t fifo -u Wayne ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
