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Tsuki
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Joined: 27 May 2004
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Location: Southampton, England
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 Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 3:07 pm Post subject: fetchmail Failing to Connect to... SMTP Server? |
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I've just started trying to use fetchmail to gather my e-mail. However, upon running it (with remote servers etc. set up correctly) it stops before reading messages from my POP3 account giving an error about connecting to an SMTP server (e-mail address deliberately removed):
| Code: | fetchmail: POP3> LIST 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 2585
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK headers follow.
reading message ##My e-mail address##:1 of 1 (2585 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< |
Why would fetchmail have to talk to an SMTP server for *recieving* mail? Or am I misunderstanding something here? I'm not currently running an SMTP server, do I need to?
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pau
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Joined: 26 Dec 2004
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Location: /home/pau/
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
have a look at
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-324386-highlight-.html
Maybe it sehd some light... maybe not
Hope it helps.
Pau |
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magic919
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Joined: 17 Jun 2005
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Location: Berkshire, UK
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Or you could use Getmail. |
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Tsuki
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Location: Southampton, England
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| Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Don't worry, it seems to be working now - after I replaced sendmail with postfix. Not quite sure why that suddenly made it work, but I'm now happily running postfix with no problems sending or receiving mail.
Thanks for your suggestions! |
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