Re: fetchmail fails with smtp error
On Mon, 05 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I think I've heard odd things about networking on hamm not knowing about localhost - tell me, is localhost mentioned in /etc/hosts? Can you telnet to localhost? What does /etc/host.conf look like? /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost 0.0.0.0 bobspc bobspc.metrolink.net /etc/host.conf: order hosts,bind multi on I have successfully tested telnet localhost with three levels of recursion. However, since this was an upgrade from rex to hamm, the network configuration was not done by hamm. My original problem was fixed by following the suggestion by Scott Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], as follows: Yep, the latest smail package messes up if you want it installed in /etc/inetd.conf instead of as a daemon. Uncomment the line in inetd.conf and HUP inetd. However fixing that so that smtp was available revealed another problem. smail didn't know about localhost, and put all incoming mail in the queue to be sent back to the sender as [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an unknown address. I fixed this by adding localhost to the third line of /etc/smail/config, making the first section read: visible_name=metrolink.net -domains hostnames=bobspc:localhost This is in the hamm partition; in my bo partition it still works fine with hostnames=bobspc. This suggests that what you've heard about networking on hamm not knowing about localhost is true, and perhaps smail is the problem. It doesn't appear to be due to a /etc/hosts being misconfigured. Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fetchmail fails with smtp error
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: On my hamm system, fetchmail fails with the following message: bob:vc-2:bobfetchmail fetchmail: 29 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED] reading message 1 (4310 bytes) ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from post.metrolink.net I have installed fetchmail_4.3.4-1.deb, ppp_2.3.2-2.deb, a custom-compiled 2.0.32 kernel, and bash_2.01-5.deb. My .fetchmailrc file is: poll post.metrolink.net proto pop3 user hilliard password mypw smtp localhost I have used this .fetchmailrc file in bo for at least six months with no difficulties. (The man page in hamm lists smtphost instead of smtp; I tried this without effect.) Has anyone encountered this? Does anyone know what is wrong? Yep, the latest smail package messes up if you want it installed in /etc/inetd.conf instead of as a daemon. Uncomment the line in inetd.conf and HUP inetd. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fetchmail fails with smtp error
fetchmail: 29 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED] reading message 1 (4310 bytes) ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from post.metrolink.net Upgrade the netbase and netstd packages. Orn Einar Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice+fax; +46 035 217194 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fetchmail fails with smtp error
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) writes: On my hamm system, fetchmail fails with the following message: bob:vc-2:bobfetchmail fetchmail: 29 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED] reading message 1 (4310 bytes) ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from post.metrolink.net I have installed fetchmail_4.3.4-1.deb, ppp_2.3.2-2.deb, a custom-compiled 2.0.32 kernel, and bash_2.01-5.deb. My .fetchmailrc file is: poll post.metrolink.net proto pop3 user hilliard password mypw smtp localhost I have used this .fetchmailrc file in bo for at least six months with no difficulties. (The man page in hamm lists smtphost instead of smtp; I tried this without effect.) Has anyone encountered this? Does anyone know what is wrong? I think I've heard odd things about networking on hamm not knowing about localhost - tell me, is localhost mentioned in /etc/hosts? Can you telnet to localhost? What does /etc/host.conf look like? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fetchmail fails with smtp error
Thanks, Scott, it works as advertised now. I have now checked and find that it is Bug#16147. I would never have suspected smail of being the culprit. Bob On Mon, 5 Jan 1998 Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, the latest smail package messes up if you want it installed in /etc/inetd.conf instead of as a daemon. Uncomment the line in inetd.conf and HUP inetd. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
fetchmail fails with smtp error
On my hamm system, fetchmail fails with the following message: bob:vc-2:bobfetchmail fetchmail: 29 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED] reading message 1 (4310 bytes) ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from post.metrolink.net I have installed fetchmail_4.3.4-1.deb, ppp_2.3.2-2.deb, a custom-compiled 2.0.32 kernel, and bash_2.01-5.deb. My .fetchmailrc file is: poll post.metrolink.net proto pop3 user hilliard password mypw smtp localhost I have used this .fetchmailrc file in bo for at least six months with no difficulties. (The man page in hamm lists smtphost instead of smtp; I tried this without effect.) Has anyone encountered this? Does anyone know what is wrong? Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
