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Date:      Sun, 19 Jul 1998 18:53:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Spidey <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA>
To:        Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com>
Cc:        Questions=answers <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Sorry my mistake (was: Re: fetchmail oddities)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980719185200.7152A-100000@outpost.nada.org>
In-Reply-To: <199807192129.OAA24534@hub.freebsd.org>

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I'm sorry. The problem was that I was out of space in /var. Sendmail would
not queue the mail so it did't answer.

All apologies.

Spidey

On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Jon Hamilton wrote:

> 
> In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.980719163554.610A-100000@outpost.nada.org>, Spidey wr
> ote:
> } Hello!
> } 
> } I was happily fetching my mail with fetchmail today when I got that:
> } beaupran@outpost [4:35pm] ~> fetchmail -v
> } fetchmail: 4.3.8 querying 10.0.2.1 (protocol POP3) at Sun Jul 19 16:36:46
> } 1998
> } fetchmail: POP3< +OK slirp.popper (version 2.2-b5/1) at
> } derby.jsp.umontreal.ca starting.  
> } fetchmail: POP3> USER beaupran
> } fetchmail: POP3< +OK Password required for beaupran.
> } fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
> } fetchmail: POP3< +OK beaupran has 1 message (641 octets).
> } fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder
> } fetchmail: POP3> STAT
> } fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 641
> } fetchmail: 1 message for beaupran at 10.0.2.1.
> } fetchmail: POP3> LIST
> } fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 messages (641 octets)
> } fetchmail: POP3< 1 641
> } fetchmail: POP3< .
> } fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
> } fetchmail: POP3< +OK 641 octets
> } reading message 1 of 1 (641 bytes)
> } fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused
> 
> It's trying to talk to your MTA on port 25, which isn't listening.  Either
> fix that, or use the --mda option to fetchmail to avoid having it try to
> talk smtp to your machine in order to deliver mail.
> 
> -- 
>    Jon Hamilton  
>    hamilton@pobox.com
> 
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Spidey


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