Carel Fellinger wrote:Aha bingo, found the culprit, and it's me again:) Fetchmail as e precursion
> checks that the sending host is how he claims to be, or something similar, > and mtiwgwc27.worldnet.att.net is not the same as the mailserver he is > talking to (postoffice.worldnet.att.net) so he rejects the email. There are > plenty solutions, the simplest being to tell fetchmail to accept mail from > the whole of the worldnet.att.net domain (done with the aka option). > So, though I told you to use in your fetcmailrc: > > poll worldnet.att.net, the-sphere.org with proto POP3 > > you're better off using: > > poll postoffice.worldnet.att.net aka worldnet.att.net, the-sphere.org > with proto POP3 > > ... > > fetchmail: no local matches, forwarding to tony > > I think this is the next error w'll have to fix. > But let's first see what happens with the above fix. > > -- > groetjes, carel Same failure after the fix: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail 1 message for arodriguez at postoffice.worldnet.att.net (2557 octets). reading message 1 of 1 (2557 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from postoffice.worldnet.att.net fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Thanks Carel for all your help. I hope you don't get bored or tired of this before we fix this completely.