Re: fetchmail question

["Matt Galster-4" <user=202@nabble.blu.org>]

 Fetchmail normally pulls mail down using pop or imap from a REMOTE 
site, and then LOCALly delivers using port 25. 

Check out your fetchmail conf file.  The man pages are pretty good on this. 

MEG 

On Nov 12, 2007 12:34 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen 
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> On Nov 12, 2007 9:29 AM, Jarod Wilson <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> > I'm guessing the problem is actually that fetchmail doesn't usually fetch from 
> > port 25[*], since it operates more like a mail *client* than an MTA. It 
> > usually fetches from imap/imaps/pop3/pop3s. I typically have fetchmail pull 
> > (and delete) mail from another mail server via pop3s myself. Of course, now 
> > that I think about it, why on earth would you want to connect fetchmail to 
> > localhost?!? The mail is already on the system... 
> 
> Now you can see why we all were confused :-) 
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