From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 19 14:29:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24567 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 14:29:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pobox.com (indobok-22.mdm.mke.execpc.com [169.207.82.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA24534 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 14:29:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamilton@pobox.com) Message-Id: <199807192129.OAA24534@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 13344 invoked from network); 19 Jul 1998 16:31:29 -0500 Received: from localhost (HELO pobox.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Jul 1998 16:31:29 -0500 To: Spidey cc: Questions=answers Subject: Re: fetchmail oddities In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Jul 1998 16:38:57 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 16:31:29 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Spidey wr ote: } Hello! } } I was happily fetching my mail with fetchmail today when I got that: } beaupran@outpost [4:35pm] ~> fetchmail -v } fetchmail: 4.3.8 querying 10.0.2.1 (protocol POP3) at Sun Jul 19 16:36:46 } 1998 } fetchmail: POP3< +OK slirp.popper (version 2.2-b5/1) at } derby.jsp.umontreal.ca starting. } fetchmail: POP3> USER beaupran } fetchmail: POP3< +OK Password required for beaupran. } fetchmail: POP3> PASS * } fetchmail: POP3< +OK beaupran has 1 message (641 octets). } fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder } fetchmail: POP3> STAT } fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 641 } fetchmail: 1 message for beaupran at 10.0.2.1. } fetchmail: POP3> LIST } fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 messages (641 octets) } fetchmail: POP3< 1 641 } fetchmail: POP3< . } fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1 } fetchmail: POP3< +OK 641 octets } reading message 1 of 1 (641 bytes) } fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused It's trying to talk to your MTA on port 25, which isn't listening. Either fix that, or use the --mda option to fetchmail to avoid having it try to talk smtp to your machine in order to deliver mail. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message