re: fetchmail question

["dan moylan-3" <user=1052@nabble.blu.org>]

kristian writes: 
> Ubuntu ships by default with no ports open.  Thus, make 
> sure you have your server installed and listening... 

well in /etc/services i see: 

  smtp    25/tcp     mail 

seems reasonable to me.  what server? 

and jarod writes: 
> No *remote* ports open. We're talking localhost port 25, 
> which is generally always open, so that the system can 
> deliver local mail, like logwatch reports, etc. Pretty 
> sure that's how those 198 messages got there... :) 

ok, how do i open remote ports?  the 198 messages are there 
because i haven't downloaded any mail since saturday morning. 
fetchmail found them, but won't download them to my system 
because it can't access 127.0.0.1/25. 

> 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... 

for the past umpteen years, fetchmail has fetched mail 
from my site moylan.info and downloaded it into 
/var/spool/mail/moylan on my home machine.  i have never 
given any particular instructions to fetchmail, other than 
what is in my .fetchmailrc file, which looks like this: 

  
  

    poll moylan.info protocol pop3 
         user "moylan"           with pass "xxxxxx" is "moylan"  here 
         user "jdm+moylan.info"  with pass "xxxxxx" is "moylan"  here 
    smtp localhost 

kristian writes further: 
> Now you can see why we all were confused :-) 

actually, i can't, though i still am. 

matt writes: 

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

hmmm.  what conf file? .fetchmailrc?  man fetchmail says: 

  As each message is retrieved, fetchmail normally delivers 
  it  via  SMTP to  port 25 on the machine it is running on 
  (localhost), just as though it were being passed in over a 
  normal TCP/IP link. 

ok, that looks like what fetchmail is trying to do, but can't 
for some reason, i.e.: 

  fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] 
                              failed: Connection refused 

still at a loss. 

tia, 
dan 

j. daniel moylan 
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brookline, ma 02446-6202 
617-232-2360 (tel) 
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