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[ILUG] Fetchmail Problem

[ILUG] Fetchmail Problem

Mark Page mpage at esatclear.ie
Wed Dec 11 21:59:04 GMT 2002


Niall O Broin wrote:

>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.
>
Gonna try postfix and edit /etc/postfix/main.cf. For some strange reason 
I feel I'm gonna be back to the list but I'll let you know.

Many Thanks

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>Niall
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