I just recently got my MTA working (postfix) on my linux masq machine, and want to use it to transfer my E-Mail from my @mail.utexas.edu account to my local linux box using fetchmail. I installed it, and put in what I thought was the right commandline to test it for the first time and I got this as output:
[jforman@westernwall jforman]$ fetchmail -v -k -p pop3 -u jforman mail.utexas.edu Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fetchmail: 5.9.4 querying mail.utexas.edu (protocol POP3) at Wed 17 Oct 2001 10:00:29 PM CDT: poll started POP3 connection to mail.utexas.edu failed: Connection timed out fetchmail: 5.9.4 querying mail.utexas.edu (protocol POP3) at Wed 17 Oct 2001 10:03:38 PM CDT: poll completed fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) fetchmail: normal termination, status 2 [jforman@westernwall jforman]$ The status=2 (SOCKET) response comes to light in the man page as: An error was encountered when attempting to open a socket to retrieve mail. If you don’t know what a socket is, don’t worry about it -- just treat this as an ’unrecoverable error’. This error can also be because a protocol fetchmail wants to use is not listed in /etc/services. What could this unrecoverable error mean? I looked in /etc/services, and the pop3 service was listed correctly as 110/tcp and 110/udp. I can retrieve mail just fine using an MUA on my local machine (outlook). Any ideas or possibility to shed some light as to if I am doing something wrong or if anyone has had the same problem? Thanks in advance, Jeff --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
