you sure you got a MTA running on localhost ? such as sendmail qmail or something similar (telnet localhost 25 to test)
fetchmail resends the mail through the local mail server to deliver it locally. nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- [ please send replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or i may miss 'em! ] On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > Hi, > > I have been playing with my system and have somehow either broken exim or > fetchmail. When I try to do fetchmail it comes up with: > > # fetchmail > fetchmail: 19 messages for mark at adam.ist.flinders.edu.au (50738 > octets). > fetchmail: reading message 1 of 19 (2154 octets) . (log message > incomplete) > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from > adam.ist.flinders.edu.au > fetchmail: Query status=10 > > Now I can't work out what I could have done to affect this. Some time ago > I upgraded a few of my packages to potato ones. I decided today to > downgrade my system back to slink (along with slink-proposed-updates and > slink version of xfree 3.3.4). There doesn't seem to be any easy way of > doing this so I used dpkg to manually fix things, and then ran > apt-get dist-upgrade > just to make sure everything was okay. > > What can the problem be? Any ideas? Please cc a copy of any reply, > directly to me thanks, as I am currently unable to be subscribed to the > list. > > Thanks, > > Mark. > > _/~~~~~~~~\___/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ > ____/~~\_____/~~\__/~~\__________________________Mark_Phillips____________ > ____/~~\_____/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ____/~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_____________________________________________ > ____/~~\______/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ > __________________________________________________________________________ > "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!" > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
