flupke wrote:
>
> 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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I re-ran the install.sh and made sure that ports 25 and 110 are indeed
open. FM is still not bringing down the mail for use in Pine. I really
came to like that program! Wish I could get it running again.
--
Mark
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