On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:44:25PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 06:26:28PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > I'm having trouble fetching my mail with fetchmail. All it does it say: > > > > ================================================================== > > > > 9 messages for [EMAIL PROTECTED] at pop.gmail.com (36283 octets). > > reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]@gmail-pop.l.google.com:1 of 9 (2984 > > octets).. > > fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed: > > fetchmail grabs the mail from POP and passes it to your MTA on > localhost using the loopback device (i think that's how it works) and > your MTA isn't answering on port 25. > > > Connection timed out. > > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed > > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@pop.gmail.com and delivering to SMTP host localhost > > fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) > > Press any key to continue... > > > > ================================================================== > > > > I have no idea what could be wrong. As you can tell SMTP is working fine > > (Under SSMTP), so I have no idea why fetchmail isn't working. > > ? I'm not sure what you mean here, but it looks to me like smtp is NOT > working on lo interface. Can you telnet port 25 and ge tit to respond? > > A >
Nope, even after setting lo (I had it commented out) it doesn't seem to want to respond. I'm using getmail for now, but I can't figure out how to get it to play nicely with procmail (I'm guessing this is another lo problem?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]