From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 4 1:50:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corten2.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 602DB37B41A for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 01:49:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com ([192.168.7.8]) by corten2.billschoolcraft.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 173nyD-0003ub-00 for ; Fri, 03 May 2002 18:04:17 -0700 Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 17:00:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: bill@corten8 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail In-Reply-To: <20020503172229.A15598@bsag.ch> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; Linux i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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