yes, I just had this problem too. Be sure we're on the page by doing the following:
telnet localhost 25 if the connection is refused or similar, smtp is not running. To solve the problem I installed sendmail (I know it better than exim): apt-get install sendmail do the configs, I'm not sure how you get service so it's tough to say too much. One issue that I had was that mail is received at my isp at beerdrinker.org but when I receive it sendmail wants to send it back, so I modified my /etc/hosts file to add beerdrinker.org to the 127.0.0.1 line. Kludgy though, cuz now I can't send mail properly to beerdrinker.org. Pretty sure that there is a configuration for sendmail that I can set that will unbreak this...but it works for now. rick Frederico S. Muñoz writes: > > > New Star Service Company wrote: > > > > I create .fetchmailrc file in my /home/satyajit . > > like this : > > default > > forcecr > > poll spnetctg.com with proto POP > > user satyajit with password "xxxx" > > fetchall > > > > and give command in root > > # chmod 0710 /home/satyajit/.fetchmailrc > > > > I take connection and use this command in my /home/satyajit > > $ fetchmail -K pop.spnetctg.com > > password : <I give password here> > > > > but fetchmail give me following error but it show me how many message in my > > pop server. > > fetchmail : SMTP connect to localhost failed > > fetchmail : SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.spnetctg.com > > fetchmail : Query status = 10 > > > > please help me how can I solve this problem. > > > I think that the problem is not with fetchmail: fetchmail get's you mail > from the POP server, but fails to deliver it to your local MTA > (sendmail/exim/postfix/qmail/whatever). > I had this problem before... I had to remove a smtpd package (IIRC) and > change a thing in sendmail configuration... > > I know this isn't much help, but at least you know where the problem is > (if I'm right, that is :) ). > > yours, > > fsm > -- > Frederico Serrano Muñoz GNU: http://www.gnu.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian: http://www.debian.org > > SDF - Public Access Unix Systems - http://sdf.lonestar.org > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- A picture is worth about 25000 characters. Any more and it takes too long to download.