Hi Wayne, I never set up Mail.app, or tried to use it. Imagine that if I did, it would set up postfix for me.
Turns out there is some editing to do: cd /etc/postfix/ and have a look around there. vi master.cf (or use bbedit). Also, note that Panther uses vim by default! uncomment line 77. In other words, remove the '#' in front of the line that starts with 'smtp'. do a vi /etc/hostconfig and change the line "MAILSERVER=-AUTOMATIC-" to "MAILSERVER=-YES-", because we want the SMTP server to be up all time. then do sudo postfix reload to start up the SMTP server. I'll be damned, it worked. I have no idea how you would figure that out, I found it on http://www.kung-foo.tv/blog/archives/000652.php Thanks for your help, Lincoln On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:58:57 -0400 (EDT), "Wayne Brehob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Lincoln Rutledge wrote: > > > > Finally the point: How do I get fetchmail to dump my mail in my spool in > > the expected fashion? I have fetchmail, I have "mail", and I have what > > appears to be the sendmail interface to postfix for local delivery. But > > fetchmail cannot make the handoff: > > > > ... > > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed > > ... > > > It looks to me like postfix isn't actually running, or it isn't running > as a "I'll listen on port 25" daemon, anyway. On my box... > % telnet localhost 25 < I typed that > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 box.brehob.org ESMTP Postfix > quit < I typed that > 221 Bye > Connection closed by foreign host. > > > a ps gx shows: > > 242 ?? Ss 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/postfix-watch > > > > That makes me think that local delivery is up and running. > > > I don't remember offhand, but it may be that that's just the process that > watches for stuff dumped into a queue. My system has a couple processes > running as postfix (and more when there is mail flowing. > > % pa | grep post > root 388 1 Mon08AM 0:00.74 /usr/libexec/postfix/master > postfix 609 388 Mon09AM 0:00.44 qmgr -l -t fifo -u > > Wayne -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
