cyberruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> When I run fetchmail, I get the following errors:
>
> SMTP connect to localhost failed
> SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.xxx.xxx.xx
>
> fetchmail can see the pop server and the server recognises my username
> and password. I used fetchmailconf to setup my .fetchmailrc file and
> ran the test, getting the above errors.
It failed to connect to the SMTP server on localhost, just like the error
says. Is qmail-smtpd running and accepting connections from localhost?
> Incidentally, when I run netscape mail, I get no problems. (obviously
> it works fine as a mail client)
If it sends mail fine too, then it's delivering mail to a different host,
port, or using /usr/sbin/sendmail injection.
By the way, doing delivery by SMTP re-injection is a broken design, and is
responsible for most of fetchmail's problems. Configure fetchmail to call an
MDA directly, or switch to getmail.
Charles
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