On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 10:33:11AM -0300, Ralph Winslow wrote: > When Art Lemasters wrote, I replied: [...] > wasn't much help. My current state is: > > when I rune fetchmail, it responds: > fetchmail: 36 messages at mail.my_isp.net > reading message 1 of 36 (1732 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to > localhost failed: connection refused > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.my_isp.net [...]
fetchmail is configured by default to use smtp to receive mail. Check /etc/inetd.conf. It should have something like the following. #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services. smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.smtpd fetchmail is trying to use in.smtpd and the connection is being refused. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux
