What distro? Is your firewall blocking you? What firewall are you using? On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm trying to set up msmtp as a local mail agent just for my machine so > that i can get mail from, for example, cron jobs > I keep getting this error > > cannot connect to localhost, port 465: Connection refused > > and can find nothing as to how I might fix it which is really odd as i'm > using the standard msmtprc config file and you'd think if it has this > problem out of the box it would be relatively common. > > Any ideas ? > > -- > Brian > > > the config file > --- > account default > > # The SMTP smarthost > host localhost > > # Use TLS on port 465. On this port, TLS starts without STARTTLS. > port 465 > tls on > tls_starttls off > > # Construct envelope-from addresses of the form "[email protected]" > from %U@localhost > > # Do not allow programs to override this envelope-from address via -f > allow_from_override off > # Always set a From header that matches the envelope-from address > set_from_header on > > # Syslog logging with facility LOG_MAIL instead of the default LOG_USER > syslog LOG_MAIL >
