When Jack Kern wrote, I replied: For reference my .fetchmailrci, as previously attached:
poll mail.my_isp.net protocol pop3 username rjw password secret_word > > 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. But I thought that the phrase "protocol pop3" in ~rjw/.fetchmailrc would make fetchmail use pop3 instead. In any case, I found an active line for smtp, and commented-out lines for pop-2 and pop-3. I commented smtp out and pop-3 in, but even after a /etc/sbin/netbase restart, sendmail still gets the same SMTP errors. Was ist lose? Auch I found /etc/init.d/exim and /etc/init.d/netbase have references to smtp and inetd; exim's specify smtp, I used netbase to restart inetd after editing /etc/inetd.conf. Since exim is an mta that supplies a sendmail command (but no fetchmail), I'm guessing that I can leave it alone. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- ----------------------------------------- Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Insert sardonic phrase here>
