On Sun, 27 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 27 Jul, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > > On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > >> reading message 1 (2857 bytes) > >> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Unknown error > >> 18446744073709551615 > >> fetchmail: POP3> QUIT > >> fetchmail: POP3< -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from milo.cfw.com: > >> Unknown error 18446744073709551615 > >> fetchmail: normal termination, status 9 > >> vtorrico$ > > > > The way I read it fetchmail is working fine as is your IPS's POP3 > > daemon. The problem is with SMTP at your end. > > > > Do you have an entry in /etc/inetd.conf like:- > > smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.smtpd > > > > What happens when you telnet to localhost 25? > > > > Check that localhost resolves to 127.0.0.1. > > > Hi, > > I had the same problem. The solution was to enter -S localhost as a > additional option to fetchmail. > > I can telnet localhost 25 fine and type in a mail manualy and I can > resolve localhost. So I don't know why this doesn't work without -S > localhost. > > However, it works, so I am happy with it :-)
I had a similar problem and was advised to add a mda entry to .fetchmailrc, which works: mda "formail -s procmail" After reading the previous response, I noticed that my /etc/inetd.conf did NOT have smtp defined. Adding that also fixes the problem for me (without the need for the mda line). Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .