On 12/07/2010 05:34 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > > Dec 7 16:00:38 paulandcilla fetchmail[16761]: connection to > > localhost:smtp [::1/25] failed: Connection refused. > fetchmail is failing to connect to whatever is running on ipv6 localhost > (0::1 port 25) > > If this is postfix, make sure postfix is set up to listen on ipv6. > > actually, I got this from my /var/log/mail.info : Dec 7 18:14:45 paulandcilla postfix/smtpd[28675]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1] Dec 7 18:14:45 paulandcilla postfix/smtpd[28675]: 54C7C54359: client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
so, postfix/smtp has always worked... I think it was my fetchmailrc file.. I was told to add this to my /etc/fetchmailrc: defaults: smtphost 127.0.0.1 smtpaddress localhost that seemed to fix it. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800
