Hi,
In your fetchmailrc file, did you specify which MDA to use?
If you did not, then fetchmail will just send them to localhost
at port 25.
try this: telnet localhost 25 to see if you have anything
running on port 25.
Two ways to fix this:
If you want to run exim as a daemon, then modify your
fetchmailrc file to use exim as the MDA.
something like
"user xxxx there has passwd xxxx is xxxx here and want
use mda "exim -bs"
my syntax is wrong, plz check the man page for details.
OR you can modify your /etc/inet.conf to listen to port
25 for incoming connections. There is already a line
there, you just need to uncomment it out.
Hope this helps.
Shao.
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
>
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