Monte Milanuk wrote:
>
> Well, I haven't had this problem myself (yet), but a few things to try
> might be to check your system logs, in case fetchmail is really running
> into the firewall, it may leave a trace in the logs. The only part of
> fetchmail that I would think would have problems w/ a firewall would be
> the last stage where it feeds it to the MTA (sendmail) on port 25. But
> you said you left that open explicitly. The other thing to maybe try is
> to run fetchmail w/ the ' -vvv' flag for extremely verbose reporting, and
> see what it says.
>
> Monte
>
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Ok...I've done those checks and fetchmail is reporting that it cannot
connect with localhost. It's communicating fine with the servers at my
ISP and is able to bring down the mail, but it's failing to talk with my
machine.
I opened and edited pmfirewall.conf and added a line to the local.rules
giving access to POP3 port 110 but that didn't make any difference
either. Is there some way that I must configure sendmail to allow proper
access? Should I set up a POP3 account here on my machine for fetchmail
to talk to when it's pulling down the mail from my ISP?
I'm perplexed about this cause when I was running Mandrake 7.0 all this
worked just fine with no configuration. I didn't start experiencing
trouble of any kind till the 7.1 upgrade, and subsequent firewall
installation. I'm wondering now if it's the firewall or 7.1 that's
causing the trouble. 7.1 can go, but the FW must remain.
thanks,
Mark
