From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 3 8:33:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icarus.slightlystrange.org (icarus.slightlystrange.org [62.190.193.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16BA137B405 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 08:33:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from danielby by icarus.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 173f48-0001DZ-00 for ; Fri, 03 May 2002 16:33:48 +0100 Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 16:33:48 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail Message-ID: <20020503153348.GA4015@icarus.slightlystrange.org> Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:08:22AM -0500, Henning, Brian wrote: > 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 > documentation for correct configuration.. You will need to have some kind of MTA available, such as sendmail or exim, or you can use procmail for this purpose (it needs to run suid root for this to work, presumably so it has permission to write to /var/mail/ ). You need to add this to your .fetchmailrc rules to pass messages to procmail: mda /usr/local/bin/procmail This way, you do not need to have an MTA running all the time. YMMV, as they say. Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message