downgrading to the bo- smail package worked. ...someone should remove those bad smail packages from bo-update and hamm...
Thanks On 31 Jan 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: > smail is refusing connections by fetchmail... there are no error messages > in any of the smail log files. I'm using the smail package from > bo-updates on Debian/hamm w/ procmail... Anyone have an idea on what is > wrong? > > Usually this is caused by DNS problems; i.e., fetchmail tries to > connect to the local machine through its DNS name, but the DNS name > doesn't point to a real machine so it gets a connection refused error. > > Workaround: Add > > mda "/usr/sbin/smail -oem YOUR-USERNAME" > > to the end of each `poll' line in .fetchmailrc. > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
