Hi Dieter,
which MTA are you using??? (postfix, sendmail, exim, ...?)
I had compareable troubles till I got postfix configured right.
I could send you my config file if you want it.
gr. matthias
> Hi,
> what is going wrong?
>
> Dialing in to my ISP (with pppd) and fetching mails (with fetchmail) works
> well.
> But then I get the message "SMPT connect to localhost failed" respectively
> (using fetchmail -S hostname)
> "This message is MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand".
>
> * Where can I see/set my local smtphostname (or should I set my
> domainname)?
> * Sending myself a mail (with mutt) doesn't work - which address should I
> use (root or root@hostname doesn't work)?
>
> Thanks for any help
> Dieter
>
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