On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's what fetchmail said when trying to get mails from my mail server:
>
> Mar 10 18:42:34 gajanan fetchmail[618]: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> Mar 10 18:42:34 gajanan fetchmail[618]: POP3> QUIT^M
> Mar 10 18:42:34 gajanan fetchmail[618]: POP3< Hi,
> Mar 10 18:42:34 gajanan fetchmail[618]: SMTP transaction error while fetching from
>mail.flashmail.com
It seems that fetchmail is unable to connect to port 25 on localhost. Try
telnet localhost 25 and see if qmail responds to that. If it doesn't,
then it isn't listening on port 25.
If it does, then check your .fetchmailrc file for a smtphost option in the
user line. If there isn't one, then add it:
user ... with password... is ..... smtphost localhost
If necessary, change localhost to your machine's name (what you have in
your hosts file).
Philip
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