I'm having a problem understanding fetchmail.
I've got fetchmail 5.9.11 which I installed from the stable package collection.
I also have Exim 3.35 installed (which was a default install when I installed Woody).
I have fetchmail running as a daemon and checking for mail every 60 seconds on 'localhost'.
But when I use my Webmin admin app to check the servers, I get...
Checking for mail on server(s) with command /usr/bin/fetchmail -v -f '/etc/fetchmailrc' ..
fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying localhost (protocol POP3) at Tue Nov 11 09:32:03 2003: poll started
POP3 connection to localhost failed: Connection refused
fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying localhost (protocol POP3) at Tue Nov 11 09:32:03 2003: poll completed
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying localhost (protocol POP3) at Tue Nov 11 09:32:03 2003: poll started
POP3 connection to localhost failed: Connection refused
fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying localhost (protocol POP3) at Tue Nov 11 09:32:03 2003: poll completed
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying localhost (protocol POP3) at Tue Nov 11 09:32:03 2003: poll started
POP3 connection to localhost failed: Connection refused
fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying localhost (protocol POP3) at Tue Nov 11 09:32:03 2003: poll completed
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying localhost (protocol POP3) at Tue Nov 11 09:32:03 2003: poll started
POP3 connection to localhost failed: Connection refused
fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying localhost (protocol POP3) at Tue Nov 11 09:32:03 2003: poll completed
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: normal termination, status 2
.. checking failed!
and it does not seem to matter if I change 'localhost' to the FQDN of my server either.
I've been reading that fetchmail is well documented, but I've checked the man pages, and I'm just not getting it.
Am I trying to use fetchmail for something it's not intended to be used for?
My whole reason for fetchmail was to allow users to access their e-mail via their MUAs (e.g. Outlook Express).
Any help with this will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, Kordula
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