means the system cannot connect to your MTA, whatever it may be, try to
telnet localhost 25 you must have a working MTA for fetchmail to work, sendmail, postfix, exim are all MTA (mail transfer agents). nate On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: neutec >Hello Group, neutec >I have a fetchmail question. Im running potato with kernel 2.2.15 and when i neutec >try "fetchmail" I get an error: neutec > neutec >1 message for neutec at pacbell.net (1033 octets). neutec >reading message 1 of 1 (1033 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost neutec >failed neutec >fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pacbell.net neutec >fetchmail: Query ststus=1 (SMTP) neutec > neutec >So where am I going wrong here??? neutec >thanks for your help neutec >PS.. what is a easy to use program to send mail? neutec > neutec > neutec >-- neutec >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null neutec > ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9:32pm up 7 days, 6:33, 2 users, load average: 0.17, 0.06, 0.01
