Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It`s a long story but in order to install fidogate I replaced my > perfectly working exim with sendmail. Now when I try to collect my mail > with fetchmail I get: > > reading message 1 of 10 (1598 header octets) > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed The above is the problem. Sendmail is not allowing fetchmail to connect to your local host. You can test this with a simple: telnet localhost 25
If everything's working fine you should connect and get a prompt from sendmail. If it fails, so will fetchmail. [snip] > > If I test sendmail with "sendmail -v" it says : > > Recipient names must be specified > > I would imagine that this is my problem but I`ve read loads of Docs. and > still can`t work out what`s wrong. > Easy with the advice please - my head hurts! No, you need to tell sendmail what to use as an address when you test it. Like: sendmail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a test. . That's how you get it a test run working. As I stated though, I don't believe this is the problem. It's that sendmail isn't accepting connections from localhost. I'm not that familiar with sendmail but I suspect you just need to add something in the sendmail.cf file to tell it that localhost is allowed to use sendmail as a relay. Gary
