[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) writes: > On my hamm system, fetchmail fails with the following message: > > bob:vc-2:bob>fetchmail > 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] .
