Gary Hennigan wrote: > 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. > >
Thanks for the help. I`ve buggered around with so many files now that I`m not sure what`s going on! The command: " sendmail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED]" results in this: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] User unknown" However this just using a valid username: "bash-2.03$ /usr/sbin/sendmail -v paul ddd . paul... Connecting to local... paul... Sent " seems to work OK. And telnet to port 25: "FUDO2:/home/guest# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to dial.pipex.com. Escape character is '^]'. mail... Recipient names must be specified ^] telnet> q Connection closed. " doesn`t seem to work either. Could anyone give me at least a pointer as to where to look for a solution. The frightening thing is this is just a preliminary to trying to install fidogate again. Thanks. Paul
