On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Colin McMillen wrote: > I am trying to get my mail from a remote server rather than through > Netscape Mail. I have the fetchmail package installed, but it can't seem > to get mail from my server. Can someone point out what I am doing wrong? > (The username and mail server are correct, by the way)... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] fetchmail -u mcmi0037 mcmi0037.email.umn.edu > Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > fetchmail: No mail for mcmi0037 at mcmi0037.email.umn.edu > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] fetchmail -u mcmi0037 mcmi0037.email.umn.edu > Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > fetchmail: No mail for mcmi0037 at mcmi0037.email.umn.edu > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] fetchmail -u mcmi0037 mcmi0037.email.umn.edu > Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > 1 message for mcmi0037 at mcmi0037.email.umn.edu (645 octets). > reading message 1 of 1 (638 header octets) fetchmail: SMTP listener > doesn't like recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > fetchmail: can't even send to shadow! > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from > mcmi0037.email.umn.edu > fetchmail: Query status=10
I think a mail-transfer-agent (smail, sendmail or one of the others) needs to be listening on port 25. Try this and see if you get anything: telnet localhost 25 For example, mine says: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 picard.internetcds.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:55:05 -0700 then I have to to Ctrl ] to get out of it. If yours does not connect, you probably need to install, configure or start a mail transfer agent. Hope this helps.
