On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:19:50PM +0000, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 06:37:14PM +0000, p wrote: > > debs, > > > > when i fetchmail, i get an smtp error: > > > > fetchmail: smtp connect to localhost failed > > fetchmail: smtp transaction error while fetching from pcisys.net > > fetchmail: query status=10 (smtp) > > > > suggestions? > > > > thx. > > > > b. > > Check that /etc/hosts.allow contains a line like > > exim: <whatever...>, 127.0.0.1 > > or a line corresponding to whatever MTA you're using. > > For me, this line is: > exim: 192.168.0.0/24, 127.0.0.1 > > There might be other reasons for your problem, but that's the one that > bit me last time I moved my mail setup around. > > jc > //
thx jc, i think my system is weird. i may try to delete the mail "trifecta" and try it again. thx, again. b. //
