-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Erika Pacholleck hath spake thusly: > [05.01.02 13:44 -0600] rhad <-- : > > running fetchmail ... > > This in turn gave me lovely error output: > > rhad-linux:/home/rhad # fetchmail -v --keep -a >> /var/log/fetchmail > > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
Disclaimer: I did not see the original post, so this advice might be useless... ;-) It may be that sendmail is not running on the system, or is not currently accepting mail due to some error condition. Check to see if it's running using something like ps axu |grep sendmail and look for a message about "sendmail: Accepting connections" or some such thing. If that gives you no clues, try checking your system logs (probably /var/log/mail.log or similar). If it's not running, start it with something like /etc/init.d/sendmail start If that works, you'll probably need to add it to your boot scripts, with checkconfig --add sendmail HTH - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8Oe3OdjdlQoHP510RAoIVAKChw+sYeVBZ/P0jH63i8IpoJSyUMwCeK3fl qVf9oAc2fVjj0c4XCsM0heQ= =J/Wp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
