On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 19:37:45 -0700, johnrchamplin AT columbus DOT rr DOT com wrote: > > Fetchmail, for reasons I can't figure out, has started refusing to > download mail. An identitical .fetchmailrc works on a different > laptop, both running uptodate sid. Here's a sample error message: > > 2 messages for JohnRChamplin at pop-server.columbus.rr.com (11760 octets). > reading message johnrchamp...@pop-server.columbus.rr.com:1 of 2 (4264 octets > )..fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed: Connection > refused. > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from johnrchamp...@pop-serv > er.columbus.rr.com and delivering to SMTP host localhost > fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
Check the status of port 25 on that machine, e.g.: # lsof -i :25 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME exim4 2933 Debian-exim 3u IPv4 736372 0t0 TCP localhost:smtp (LISTEN) # netstat -plant | grep ':25 ' tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2933/exim4 > P.S. > I'd be grateful if you'd copy me at johnrchamp...@yahoo.com. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
