[Discuss] fetchmail

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

dan moylan wrote: 
> 
> i have two laptops running fc38.  on the hp laptop fetchmail
> runs just fine, but not on the asus laptop.  .fetchmailrc is
> the same on both, the fetchmail.log shown is from the asus
> laptop.
> 
> # .fetchmailrc
>   set logfile fetchmail.log
>   poll mail.moylan.us protocol POP3
>         user "moylanus" pass "BHCjdm34!+&" is moylan preconnect "date >> fetchmail.log"
>   smtp localhost

That was a good password, but you should change it now.

> # fetchmail.log
> fetchmail: 81 messages for moylanus at mail.moylan.us (3850900 octets).
> fetchmail: reading message moylanus at mail.moylan.us:1 of 81 (49557 octets) (log message incomplete)
> fetchmail: Connection errors for this poll:
> name 0: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed: Connection refused.
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from moylanus at mail.moylan.us and delivering to SMTP host localhost

It can't find a local mail transport agent on this machine. Do
you think you're running one?

-dsr-