>>>>> "bh" == Brian Henning <Henning> writes:
bh> Hello,
bh> I am trying to get fetchmail to fetch my email and put it in my inbox on my
bh> redhat box but i am having some problems. I get a error message of 'SMTP
bh> connect to localhost failed' as shown below. I am pretty sure I have it
bh> configured properly on the fetchmail side (below). Do i need to have
bh> sendmail installed and configured to use fetchmail? I am not too familiar
bh> with sendmail or fetchmail. Can someone give me a general overview on what i
bh> need to do?
Well you need some kind of smtdaemon such as sendmail. When you have
this type of question, rpm -q --requires XXX.rpm and the manpage or
the packages website are very helpful and definitely a must read.
Also fetchmailconf can be your friend in configuring your .fetchmailrc
file.
>From the manpage:
As each message is retrieved fetchmail normally delivers
it via SMTP to port 25 on the machine it is running on
(localhost), just as though it were being passed in over a
normal TCP/IP link. The mail will then be delivered
locally via your system's MDA (Mail Delivery Agent, usu
ally sendmail(8) but your system may use a different one
such as smail, mmdf, exim, or qmail). All the delivery-
control mechanisms (such as .forward files) normally
available through your system MDA and local delivery
agents will therefore work.
Fetchmail, is a very stable package and is very easy to configure.
There are also many many sites with info, especially:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/
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Ray Curtis
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