From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 3 8:32:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.navitaire.com (mail.navitaire.com [205.182.62.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1587737B41E for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 08:32:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from exchange.Navitaire.com (exch.navitaire.com [149.122.4.14]) by mail.navitaire.com (Switch-2.1.4/Switch-2.1.0) with ESMTP id g43FWfg00759; Fri, 3 May 2002 10:32:41 -0500 (CDT) Received: by exchange.Navitaire.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <2R5M1BN2>; Fri, 3 May 2002 10:31:53 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Henning, Brian" To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Cc: "'hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com'" Subject: RE: fetchmail Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 10:31:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 Hanspeter, thanks for the help. i turned off send mail in my rc.conf file because it made bsd hang. fyi, i am behind a firewall. netstat -an|grep \\\* : tcp4 0 0 *.6010 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 *.3306 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 *.80 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 *.22 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 *.139 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 *.2401 *.* LISTEN udp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.1039 *.* udp4 0 0 192.168.1.3.138 *.* udp4 0 0 192.168.1.3.137 *.* udp4 0 0 *.138 *.* udp4 0 0 *.137 *.* udp4 0 0 *.514 *.* thanks, brian -----Original Message----- From: Hanspeter Roth [mailto:hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 10:22 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message