I know that this may sound silly, but I had the same problem and then discovered that the localhost line in (/etc/)hosts was wrong.
If thats ok try 'telnet 127.0.0.1 25' you should get some response back. If not then thats where the issue lies On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 16:47, Henning, Brian wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to get fetchmail to fetch my email and put it in my inbox on my > redhat box but i am having some problems. I get a error message of 'SMTP > connect to localhost failed' as shown below. I am pretty sure I have it > configured properly on the fetchmail side (below). Do i need to have > sendmail installed and configured to use fetchmail? I am not too familiar > with sendmail or fetchmail. Can someone give me a general overview on what i > need to do? > > thank, > > brian > > here is my ~/.fetchmailrc > -------------- > poll <pop server> protocol pop3 username "username" password "password" > > > fetchmail: 5.9.6 querying pop.scomurr.com (protocol POP3) at Fri May 3 > 10:05:38 2002: poll started > fetchmail: POP3< +OK Pop server (CH version 1.6) at marlborough starting. > fetchmail: POP3> USER [EMAIL PROTECTED] > fetchmail: POP3< +OK Password required for [EMAIL PROTECTED] > fetchmail: POP3> PASS * > fetchmail: POP3< +OK bhenning has 7 message(s) (214550 octets). > fetchmail: POP3> STAT > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 7 214550 > 7 messages for [EMAIL PROTECTED] at pop.scomurr.com (214550 octets). > fetchmail: POP3> LIST > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 7 messages (214550 octets) > fetchmail: POP3< 1 2896 > fetchmail: POP3< 2 2493 > fetchmail: POP3< 3 3409 > fetchmail: POP3< 4 188724 > fetchmail: POP3< 5 11236 > fetchmail: POP3< 6 3221 > fetchmail: POP3< 7 2571 > fetchmail: POP3< . > fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1 > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2896 octets > reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]@pop.scomurr.com:1 of 7 (2896 octets) > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed > fetchmail: POP3> QUIT > fetchmail: POP3< Hi Brian, > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.scomurr.com > fetchmail: 5.9.6 querying pop.scomurr.com (protocol POP3) at Fri May 3 > 10:05:45 2002: poll completed > fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) > fetchmail: normal termination, status 10 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Alan Harding PS Engineer Network Appliance Ltd +44 (0)7715 539272 "On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key" _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
