On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:58:59PM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: | Hi, | what is going wrong? | | Dialing in to my ISP (with pppd) and fetching mails (with fetchmail) | works well. But then I get the message "SMPT connect to localhost | failed"
Do you have an MDA (or MTA) installed on your system? fetchmail needs to hand off the messages to something else, such as procmail, sendmail, exim, postfix, etc. | respectively (using fetchmail -S hostname) "This message is | MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand". Where does this come from? mutt can handle MIME just fine. | * Where can I see/set my local smtphostname (or should I set my domainname)? Probably in the config of your MTA. | * Sending myself a mail (with mutt) doesn't work - which address | should I use (root or [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't work)? Mutt needs an MTA to send (transfer) the message somewhere. Either setup an MTA/MDA on your system if you want to deliver locally, or set up ssmtp to accept the message and hand it off to a real SMTP server. HTH, -D
