*- On 7 Jan, Johannes Tax wrote about "newbie fetchmail problem" > hi, > > i'm very new to linux. recently i got my ppp-connection working, now i > have a problem with fetchmail. whenever i start fetchmail i got this > message: > > 62 messages for johannes-tax at pop.styria.com (156274 octets). > reading message 1 of 62 (1857 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't > like recipient address '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > fetchmail: can't even send to postmaster! > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.styria.com > fetchmail: Query status=10 > > first i tried fetchmailconf and it didn't work, then i configured my > .fetchmailrc by hand. it looks like this: > > poll pop.styria.com proto pop3 > user johannes-tax pass mysecret is pox here > > what's wrong with it? i would be happy if anybody could help me. >
This isn't a fetchmail problem. It is your MTA that does not recognized the machine name 'localhost' as actually being your local machine and is thus refusing to deliver the mail that fetchmail is feeding it over the SMTP port. For exim the option is local_domains and is a colon separated list of machine names that considered local. My local machine is called(fake name on localnet) brian.servis.snet so I have the following: local_domains=localhost:servis.brian.snet:servis.snet:brian This works for me, I don't know if it is all necessary but you do need the localhost and actual machine name in there. Brian Servis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
