--- Steve George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 04:44:06PM +0200, Johan > Dewaele wrote: > <SNIP> > > I get fetchmail to search the 2 mailboxes but when > fetchmail attempts to > > dowload the messages > > I get following error : > > > > [Sun Aug 22][16:14:20]dewaele jdewaele:dewaele$ > fetchmail > > fetchmail: No mail for jenkdewaele2 at > pop.mail.yahoo.com > > 1 message for jdew1008 at mail.freebel.net (689 > octets). > > reading message 1 of 1 (689 octets) fetchmail: > SMTP connect to localhost > > failed: Connection refused > > Looks like your mail server isn't running or > accepting connections from localhost. See if you > can telnet to localhost on port 25 - if you can't it > isn't running which is why fetchmail can't deliver > to you locally. > > You will need to either get exim running (don't know > if it runs from inetd or a separate rc so can't > offer more firm advice). I think another option, if > you are not expecting to receive SMTP mail, is to > get fetchmail to deliver directly to a local > delivery program without using SMTP - I think the > man pages say more about this but I have never used > it ;-) > > Good luck, > > Steve > Oh, I took that one for granted : exim wasn't running ! Now it is.
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