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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 18:39:30 -0500 (CDT)
From: Dan Riley <daniel@vailsys.com>
To: Vladimir Kushnir <kushn@olinet.isf.kiev.ua>
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Subject: Re: fetchmail: "Unknown error: -1"
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On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Vladimir Kushnir wrote:

[parts deleted]

You realize that fetchmail will try to deliver the mail to your local 
mailer, smtp running locally that is...

> fetchmail: 3.9.4 querying popper1.isf.kiev.ua (protocol 
> POP3) at Wed Jun > 25 23:39:22 1997
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK Cubic Circle's v1.13 1996/12/26 POP3 ready
> <0000510c33b181a1@olinet>.
> fetchmail: POP3> USER (username)
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK (username) selected
> fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK Congratulations!
> fetchmail: POP3> STAT
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 27 70906
> fetchmail: 27 messages at (username)@popper1.isf.kiev.ua.
> fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2790 octets
> reading message 1 (2790 bytes)
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Unknown error: -1

So where is your local mailer? It's not responding, fetchmail cannot 
deliver the mail.

> fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> fetchmail: POP3< On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Erik Bagfors wrote:
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from
> popper1.isf.kiev.ua: Unknown error: -1
> 

Hope this helps.

Regards, 

Dan Riley