[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> The command issued was:-
> # fetchmail -f /etc/system.fetchmailrc
> # cat /etc/system.fetchmailrc
> poll mailhost.brunel.ac.uk protocol pop3 username cspgccm password "secret"
>
> The response I get is as follows:-
> 91 messages (90 seen) for cspgccm at mailhost.brunel.ac.uk (1119833 bytes).
> skipping message 1 not flushed
> skipping message 2 not flushed
> ...
> skipping message 89 not flushed
> skipping message 90 not flushed
> reading message 91 of 91 (463 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mailhost.brunel.ac.uk
> fetchmail: Query status=10
>
> There was actually one new message in the mailbox (#91).
>
> Would you be able to shed some light on what is happening, and how the
> problem can be solved?
For starters, it looks like you don't have a local sendmail daemon running
in listener mode.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government
of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?
-- Thomas Jefferson, in his 1801 inaugural address
