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[ILUG] Fetchmail Problem

[ILUG] Fetchmail Problem

Niall O Broin niall at linux.ie
Wed Dec 11 21:15:04 GMT 2002


On Wednesday 11 December 2002 20:39, Mark Page wrote:

> One more try with this question as no answers yet.

Didn't see it last time - certainly never hurts to repeat yourself.

> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed

There's your problem, clear as day - isn't debugging output wonderful. 
fetchmail can't connect to an SMTP server running on your box, most likely 
because there isn't one, although there could be other reasons. If you don't 
have an SMTP server running on your box, you absolutely need to install one - 
it's what fetchmail uses to deliver mail it has fetched to you. Postfix would 
be my recommendation, but that's only because I find readable configuration 
files a feature.



Niall




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