Re: fetchmail question

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Nov 12, 2007, at 16:25, dan moylan wrote: 

> 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? 

/etc/services is just a list of ports and the name of the service   
that commonly runs on the port. You need an actual MTA listening on   
port 25, such as postfix, sendmail, exim, etc. 


> 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.