Yes, it is a sendmail issue. I ran that very same command several timesover the period of a couple of reboots to ensure that I had configured it correctly to start at boot. Got it working now so thanks.
---rhad On 07-Jan-02 Derek D. Martin wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > At some point hitherto, Erika Pacholleck hath spake thusly: >> [05.01.02 13:44 -0600] rhad <-- : >> > running fetchmail ... >> > This in turn gave me lovely error output: >> > rhad-linux:/home/rhad # fetchmail -v --keep -a >> /var/log/fetchmail >> > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed > > Disclaimer: I did not see the original post, so this advice might be > useless... ;-) > > It may be that sendmail is not running on the system, or is not > currently accepting mail due to some error condition. Check to see if > it's running using something like > > ps axu |grep sendmail > > and look for a message about "sendmail: Accepting connections" or some > such thing. If that gives you no clues, try checking your system logs > (probably /var/log/mail.log or similar). > > If it's not running, start it with something like > > /etc/init.d/sendmail start > > If that works, you'll probably need to add it to your boot scripts, > with > > checkconfig --add sendmail > > HTH > > - -- > Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - --------------------------------------------- > I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! > GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D > Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu > Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE8Oe3OdjdlQoHP510RAoIVAKChw+sYeVBZ/P0jH63i8IpoJSyUMwCeK3fl > qVf9oAc2fVjj0c4XCsM0heQ= > =J/Wp > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------- E-Mail: rhad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 07-Jan-02 Time: 20:47:50 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------
