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Date:      Fri, 3 May 2002 17:22:29 +0200
From:      Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fetchmail
Message-ID:  <20020503172229.A15598@bsag.ch>
In-Reply-To: <E1846117A30764468D2192D5A48541CC03894551@exchange.Navitaire.com>; from brian.henning@navitaire.com on Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:08:22AM -0500
References:  <E1846117A30764468D2192D5A48541CC03894551@exchange.Navitaire.com>

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  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

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