On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 08:22:25PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello Group, > I have a fetchmail question. Im running potato with kernel 2.2.15 and > when i try "fetchmail" I get an error: > > 1 message for neutec at pacbell.net (1033 octets). reading message 1 > of 1 (1033 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pacbell.net > fetchmail: Query ststus=1 (SMTP) > > So where am I going wrong here??? thanks for your help PS.. what is a > easy to use program to send mail?
Can you send mail to yourself locally? Sounds like your local mail handler (sendmail, or other) is not configured to accept mail from localhost. -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·ASCII·characterset·when·compos » ing·email·messages.