Martin Brown wrote:
> I've been using 'fetchmail' to dl my mail to my rh6.1 system. I've never
[...]
> [mjbjr@localhost mjbjr]$ fetchmail
> 7 messages for mjbjr at shell9.ba.best.com (16465 octets).
> reading message 1 of 7 (579 octets) fetchmail: retained
> reading message 2 of 7 (2017 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost
> failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from shell9.ba.best.com
> fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
>
> It's always the same error.
I had the same problem when my IP address would change. Sendmail insisted
it was running at one IP address, fetchmail would go to localhost and
sendmail would think it was coming from someplace else and deny access.
Have you tried restarting sendmail?
-W-
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