fetchmail

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:22:04PM +0000, dan moylan wrote:
> 
> the last (known) problem resulting from my belated upgrade
> to rh9.0 is that fetchmail seems not to work.  my old perl
> script for popping mail still works ok, but for various
> reasons i'd rather continue using fetchmail.  my
> .fetchmailrc file looks like this:
> 
> # .fetchmailrc
> 
>   poll pop.rcn.com protocol pop3 username jdm34 password xxxxxxxx
>   smtp host localhost
> 
> and here's what i get after invoking fetchmail:
> 
> 1 message for jdm34 at pop.rcn.com (5958 octets).
> reading message jdm34 at pop.rcn.com:1 of 1 (5958 octets)
> fetchmail: fetchmail: getaddrinfo(host.smtp)
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed

It wants to deliver to a local mail transporter listening on port 25. Is
there one?

-dsr-