On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 01:29:38PM +0400, thus spake Rino Mardo:
> > > hmm, fetchmail uses ETRN and not SMTP (port 25). debian 2.2 with exim
> works
> > > fine out of the box
> > > so why compound the problem? what is it your trying to accomplish?
>
> yes by default SMTP uses port 25. um, what's the problem anyway?
Well there appear to be two problems! One is answered here
#man fetchmail .....................
"fetches mail from remote mailservers and forwards it to
your local (client) machine's delivery system.....
The fetchmail program can gather mail from servers sup
porting any of the common mail-retrieval protocols: POP2,
POP3, IMAP2bis, IMAP4, and IMAPrev1. It can also use the
ESMTP ETRN extension. (The RFCs describing all these pro
tocols are listed at the end of this manual page.)
While fetchmail is primarily intended to be used over on-
demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections), it
may also be useful as a message transfer agent for sites
which refuse for security reasons to permit (sender-initi
ated) SMTP transactions with sendmail.
As each message is retrieved fetchmail normally delivers
it via SMTP to port 25 on the machine it is running on
(localhost), just as though it were being passed in over a
normal TCP/IP link. The mail will then be delivered
locally via your system's MDA (Mail Delivery Agent, usu
ally sendmail(8) but your system may use a different one
such as smail, mmdf, exim, or qmail). All the delivery-
control mechanisms (such as .forward files) normally
available through your system MDA and local delivery
agents will therefore work.
The other problem is with the question - what is he trying to
acheive??
A bit like life really......
Peace!
Glyn M
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