not necessarily... You can bypass the local port 25 listner.
An extract from man fetchmail.
-m <command>, --mda <command>
(Keyword: mda) You can force mail to be passed to
an MDA directly (rather than forwarded to port 25)
with the -mda or -m option. Be aware that this
disables some valuable resource-exhaustion checks
and error handling provided by SMTP listeners; it's
not a good idea unless running an SMTP listener is
impossible. If fetchmail is running as root, it
sets its userid to that of the target user while
delivering mail through an MDA. Some possible MDAs
are "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -f %F %T",
"/usr/bin/deliver" and "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
(but the latter is usually redundant as it's what
SMTP listeners usually forward to).
VaibhaV
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Maybe sendmail is not running on you system. Fetchmail will only give the
> messages it fetches to sendmail at port 25. You need sendmail or postfix
> or something similiar running on the local system.
>
> best wishes,
> Indraneel
>
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Pradeep Sangunni wrote:
>
> > Hi to all,
> >
> > When i try to run fetchmail to get my mail it gives me an error,
> > Reading message 1 of 32 fetchmail: retained
> > SMTP connect to localhost fail.
> > SMTP transaction error while fetching mail from server.
> > fetchmail:Query status=10 (SMTP)
> >
> > Any help.
> >
> > Regards,
> > -Pradeep.
>
>
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