From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 3 8:22:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.bsag.ch (ns.bsag.ch [62.2.201.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A3B37B404 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 08:22:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.bsag.ch (root@localhost) by ns.bsag.ch with ESMTP id g43FP0205660 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 17:25:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ns.bsag.ch (bs13.bsag.ch [192.168.1.13]) by gw.bsag.ch with ESMTP id g43FOxU05656 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 17:24:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from hpr@localhost) by ns.bsag.ch (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id g43FMTi16026 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 3 May 2002 17:22:29 +0200 Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 17:22:29 +0200 From: Hanspeter Roth To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail Message-ID: <20020503172229.A15598@bsag.ch> Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: ; from brian.henning@navitaire.com on Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:08:22AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On May 03 at 10:08, Henning, Brian spoke: > Hello, > > I am trying to get fetchmail to work on my BSD box but i am having some > problems. I get a error message of > 'SMTP connect to localhost failed' as shown below. I am pretty sure I have > it configured properly on the fetchmail side. Do i need to have sendmail > installed and configured to use fetchmail? If so can you direct me to some Afaik fetchmail needs an MTA such as sendmail listening on port 25 or 587. Have you tried sendmail_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf? What does `netstat -an|grep \\\*` tell? -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message