Re: [expert] Trying to download mail from a server running postfix

[Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]]

On Saturday 27 January 2001 17:35, Stephen Carville wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] wrote:
>
> - I've setup postfix on a mdk 7.2 server but I'm having problems
> downloading - mails from it, when I try to download via fetchmail I get:
> - <snap>
> - [number1@liquid number1]$ fetchmail -p POP3 -u number1
> borg.deltacomputers.no - Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> - 1 message for number1 at borg.deltacomputers.no (768 octets).
> - reading message 1 of 1 (768 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost
> - failed
> - fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from
> borg.deltacomputers.no - fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
> - </snap>
> -
> - Anybody got a clue what might be wrong or what logs I should look at to
> find - it out ?
> -
> - Do I have to setup something in the postfix configs to allow downloading
> of - mail?
>
> Your config as installed should be able to handle sending mail and local
> delivery.  I postfix running?  Like sendmail it can send mail from a
> command line but has to be listening on port 25 to handle local delivery.
> Since you are getting a connection failure, that is my best first guess.
>
> Use "ps ax | grep postfix" to see if it is running. If not, as root do
> "/etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix start"

yeah, it's running... It receives mails just fine and I can read the mail 
locally, but I can't fetch it no matter what client I try..

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