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

[Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]]

On Saturday 27 January 2001 14:59, Meph Istopheles wrote:
>   Christian,
>
> > 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 ?
>
>   Only a clue, sorry.  I'd recently been at postfix's Web site &
> am pretty sure I'd seen something about this in their support
> docs...maybe a faq.  I think though...
>
> > Do I have to setup something in the postfix configs to allow
> > downloading of mail?
>
> ...it's something to do with your loopback.  I've read of
> something which I think was simillar with sendmail that if
> in...um, I can't think of the file, but it lists only loopback &
> host name in /etc (/etc/hosts?).  Sometimes the order of the two
> is wrong.
>
>   As for a file which ~might~ show something wrong, try
> /etc/postfix/main.cf
>
>   Meph

Can't seem to find anything wrong in either of the files, know anything more 
specific about the loopback thing ?

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