Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 10:43:04 -0800 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fetchmail: Error message in maillog Message-ID: <20061104184304.GA17764@ayn.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <200611041308.10820.gerard@seibercom.net> References: <200611041308.10820.gerard@seibercom.net>
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On Sat, Nov 04, 2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: >FreeBSD 6.1 >Fetchmail release 6.3.5+RPA+SDPS+SSL+OPIE+NLS. > >I had been running fetchmail without incident for over a year. I then did >something stupid; I updated it. Now, it produces this error message in >the /var/maillog file: > > >Nov 4 12:57:52 scorpio fetchmail[734]: connection to localhost:smtp >[::1/25] failed: Connection refused. > > >It never did this before. I do not see anything apparently broken, but I am >unsure. Other then reverting to the older version which worked flawlessly, >what else should I be looking for? > >Fetchmail is harvesting mail and delivering it to Postfix. This has got me >stumped. This is failing when fetchmail attempts to connect to postfix to send the mail locally. Either postfix isn't running, or perhaps the main.cf file has been changed so it's not listening on localhost. The command ``lsof -n -i :25 | grep LISTEN'' should show any processes listening on port 25 (SMTP) Try ``postconf smtp_bind_address'' to see if postfix configured to listen on a specific interface. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Breathe fire, slay dragons, and take chances. Failure is temporary, regret is eternal.
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