From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 25 15:40:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA21258 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:40:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy1.ba.best.com (root@proxy1.ba.best.com [206.184.139.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA21237; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:40:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsampley.vip.best.com (bsampley.vip.best.com [206.184.160.196]) by proxy1.ba.best.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id PAA27432; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:36:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:35:20 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley To: Ville Eerola cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fetchmail nolonger working In-Reply-To: <199703252324.AA257592289@layout.vlsi.fi> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thanks for the help. Yes I do have senmail running. I just solved this problem. I looked in the /etc/sysconfig file and noticed that routed was NOT running. I changed the line from router="NO" to router=routed and rebooted the machine. Surpirse, now fetchmail works. I keep seeing many, many postings on both -current and -questions that routed _IS NOT NEEDED_ for anything. This truely is a case the proves otherwise. The only thing that I changed was the router line in sysconfig and now fetchmail works. (I know I'll probably get flamed for this, but Oh, well) On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Ville Eerola wrote: > 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 > > --- Brought to you by a 100% Micro$oft free system. You too can disinfect your system at http://www.freebsd.org E-Mail: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com Alternate E-Mail: bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu Home Page: http://www.best.com/~bsampley (permanently under construction)