Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 17:00:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0205031654390.801-100000@corten8> In-Reply-To: <20020503172229.A15598@bsag.ch>
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At Fri, 3 May 2002 it looks like Hanspeter Roth composed: > 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? > Hmm, for general users machines I just bypass Sendmail and use procmail as my MDA with this .fetchmailrc file: (example of .fetchmailrc) ######################### set daemon 300 poll ruby.he.net with protocol POP3: user steve there with password sy67Gbe is stephan here mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f - " ######################### That's the whole file period. I just start fetchmail with: fetchmail -a and it starts. If you want to set that file up and just "check" and see if the file works, use the following command. fetchmail -c Fetchmail may complain about some perms but it'll tell you what permissions it wants in it's error. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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