From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 25 15:25:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA20057 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:25:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.vlsi.fi (iQ0OHLvmWHlFNajqxCn3ZCKq9cv4hCkl@mail.vlsi.fi [195.74.10.147]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA20033; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:25:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by mail.vlsi.fi (8.7.6/8.7.3) id BAA29205; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 01:25:03 +0200 (EET) Received: from vlsi1.vlsi.fi(193.64.2.2) by mail.vlsi.fi via smap (V1.3) id sma029199; Wed Mar 26 01:24:55 1997 Received: from layout.vlsi.fi by vlsi1.vlsi.fi with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA158042290; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 01:24:50 +0200 Received: by layout.vlsi.fi (1.37.109.15/16.2) id AA257592289; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 01:24:49 +0200 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 01:24:49 +0200 Message-Id: <199703252324.AA257592289@layout.vlsi.fi> From: Ville Eerola To: Burton Sampley Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fetchmail nolonger working In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM Version 5.93 (beta) under GNU Emacs 19.29.6 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Burton Sampley writes: > The error message I get when I run fetchmail -av is SMTP connection > failed. I have two email accounts (on different servers), so I have a > .fetchmailrc file which has never been modified. > > Any ideas? Well, do you have sendmail running? Normally fetchmail uses SMTP connection to the localhost to deliver the messages it downloads from the mail sever. Thus, you need to have a MTA listening to port 25 on the host runnig fetchmail, or alternatively you need to configure fetchmail to use a local MDA directly. Other than that, I can't say very much without seeing the messages from the failed fetchmail run. Regards, Ville -- Ville.Eerola@vlsi.fi VLSI Solution Oy Tel:+358 3 3165579 Hermiankatu 6-8 C Fax:+358 3 3165220 FIN-33720 Tampere, Finland