On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, ~*Mark*~ wrote:
> 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
Seems like you should open the smtp (25) port on your firewall.
Fetchmail transmits the mail from a remote pop3 server to a local smtp
server.
HTH
Flupke
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