On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:23:09AM +0100, Kordula Martin wrote: > Hi fellow Debian fans, > > I'm having a problem understanding fetchmail. > I've got fetchmail 5.9.11 which I installed from the stable package > collection. > I also have Exim 3.35 installed (which was a default install when I > installed Woody). > > I have fetchmail running as a daemon and checking for mail every 60 seconds > on 'localhost'. > But when I use my Webmin admin app to check the servers, I get... > > Checking for mail on server(s) with command /usr/bin/fetchmail -v -f > '/etc/fetchmailrc' .. > > > fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying localhost (protocol POP3) at Tue Nov 11 09:32:03 > 2003: poll started > > POP3 connection to localhost failed: Connection refused > > fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying localhost (protocol POP3) at Tue Nov 11 09:32:03 > 2003: poll completed > > fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) <SNIP> > fetchmail: normal termination, status 2 > > .. checking failed!
> and it does not seem to matter if I change 'localhost' to the FQDN of my
> server either.
> I've been reading that fetchmail is well documented, but I've checked the
> man pages, and I'm just not getting it.
> Am I trying to use fetchmail for something it's not intended to be used for?
> My whole reason for fetchmail was to allow users to access their e-mail via
> their MUAs (e.g. Outlook Express).
Um, yes. I'm pretty sure you're using the wrong tool.
Fetchmail's job is to retrieve mail from a remote POP or IMAP mailbox
(eg your e-mail account with your ISP) and hand it over to your MTA for
delivery.
It looks to me like fetchmail is trying to retrieve mail from a "remote"
POP mailbox on your own machine (localhost), which makes no sense.
If you want users to be able to get their mail from your machine with
their POP and/or IMAP clients, what you need is a POP and/or IMAP
server.
There are various choices out there... Courier's implementations seem to
be pretty popular, though they do require the maildir format.
Cheers!
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