re: fetchmail question

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

kristian writes: 
> Did you post this to list? 

> > 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.