Sounds to me like your firewall isn't letting the remote POP server through. Check your logs, if your logging denys you should see it denying the remote mail server. Let it through on the POP port and you should not see this error.
Hope it helps.
Nicci
srl wrote:
Okay, I've been kicking at this problem all day, with seemingly no luck.What I want to do: I have a POP3 account, [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Hurricane Electric's webserver, that I want to check from my Redhat 6.1 box at home (aka trinity). I want to be able to run local mail clients (pine, maybe Evolution when it gets released), receiving and sending mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] My net connection is through an IP-masquerading firewall box to a cable modem. What I've done so far: -configured fetchmail (I think) properly to check the POP3 box, but it won't connect. It's supposed to be logging into maple.he.net as localjoe.org/srl. Here's what I get in my /var/log/maillog: Apr 15 14:40:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: starting fetchmail 5.1.0 daemon Apr 15 14:40:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: 5.1.0 querying maple.he.net (protocol APOP) at Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:40:33 -0400 (EDT) Apr 15 14:45:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: timeout after 300 seconds waiting to connect to server maple.he.net. Apr 15 14:45:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: client/server synchronization error while fetching from maple.he.net Apr 15 14:45:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: Query status=7 Apr 15 14:45:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: fetchmail: sleeping at Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:45:33 -0400 (EDT) So what am I doing wrong? I've looked at all the fetchmail help I can find. I read some docs somewhere that implied I needed a local MTA running, so fetchmail could deliver mail to my local account. I decided to kill off sendmail and install qmail, which I've been meaning to do for a while, I'm having arcane troubles with that also--- something about it not wanting to alias mail aimed at [EMAIL PROTECTED] to srl@trinity. Do I need a local MTA, and if so where should I look for info on configuring qmail to do what I need? TIA, srl ---- Shane Renee Landrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
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