Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:05:48 -0400 From: David Banning <david@www3.pacific-pages.com> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: david@SkytrackerCanada.com, bsd <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: fetchmail problem with a POP3 account Message-ID: <39A296CC.16CE8A9D@www3.pacific-pages.com> References: <39A07EEF.3C9DD700@www3.pacific-pages.com> <20000820213144.A28027@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <39A14BA5.81198C9F@www3.pacific-pages.com> <20000821110328.A35998@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
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You hit the nail on the head once again Crist. - I did not have sendmail running from rc.conf and that, as it turns out was the problem - evident when running your suggested "telnet localhost 25" command. I can't remember why I stopped running it as a daemon - I also don't know why I could pick up the mail using popclient from other mail servers with out it running. All that matters now, is that IT'S WORKING! Thanks- "Crist J . Clark" wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:32:53AM -0400, David Banning wrote: > > "Crist J . Clark" wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:59:27PM -0400, David Banning wrote: > > > > my popclient and fetchmail programs work fine, but not with this one > > > > mail server. > > > > > > > > problem is I CAN collect mail off their server, if use netscape mail > > > > to collect. Here is what I use for collectiing my mail > > > > (which works fine for 4 other POP3 accounts I have) > > > > > > > > fetchmail -v -v -p POP3 getmail.banning.com -u david > > > > > > > > Enter password for david@getmail.banning.com: > > > > fetchmail: 5.4.3 querying getmail.banning.com (protocol POP3) at Sun, 20 > > > > Aug 2000 20:49:43 -0400 (EDT) > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed > > > > > > It looks like you don't have a MTA listening on your local > > > machine. > > How do I check for that? > > $ telnet localhost 25 > > And see if your local MTA responds. Most of the time, it's going to be > sendmail. Are you running sendmail or another MTA? If not, look at the > '--mda' option on the fetchmail(1) manpage or run sendmail (or your > prefered MTA). For systems where I'd rather not run sendmail, I > personally use the --mda option to send mail straight through > procmail(1). > > > >But you say other mailservers work OK? > > > > They work fine - all originally using poplient - but since I couldn't > > load > > from this one server, I tried fetchmail - which also has a problem only > > with > > with this one mail server. > > If no listening MTA is the problem, fetchmail should have this same > problem with any mail server that it actually tried to get mail from. > (That is, if you used fetchmail and it did not have any mail to > download, you would not see this error. You'd only see this when > fetchmail actually finds messages to download at the server.) > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.com -- Jesus Saves, Moses Invests, But only Buddha pays Dividends. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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