hi,

i have sendmail running. i'm able to telnet to
localhost port 25. what else could be wrong?

--- Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> S.Guruprasanna rearranged electrons thusly:
> 
> > i'm using fetchmail to download the mails from my
> yahoo account to my machine.
> > while retreiving the messages, i get  timed-out
> error.  The log is like this:
>  
> > fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting for
> listener to respond.
> > fetchmail: Query status=7 (ERROR)
>  
> The error message is obvious - make sure sendmail
> (or whatever) on your desktop
> is started, up and running.  If not, start it.
> 
>       -s
> 
> > sometimes i get  clent/server syncronisation error
> and "local smtp connect
> > failed (query status=10)" erroralso. what could be
> the problem? Please help.
> 
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