From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 19 22:24:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA25626 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 22:24:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA25620 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 22:24:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA04856; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 01:17:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199807200517.BAA04856@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: fetchmail oddities In-Reply-To: from Spidey at "Jul 19, 98 04:38:57 pm" To: beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Spidey) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 01:17:40 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Spidey wrote: > 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 Looks to me like sendmail on your host isn't running or is somehow wedged. DV -- Sancho Panza: `Microsoft Windows NT Server is the most secure network operating system available.' Don Quixote: `You are mistaken, Sancho.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message