-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 13-May-2002/10:47 -0500, "Henning, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am trying to get fetchmail to fetch my email and put it in my inbox on my >redhat box but i am having some problems. I get a error message of 'SMTP >connect to localhost failed' as shown below. I am pretty sure I have it >configured properly on the fetchmail side (below). Do i need to have >sendmail installed and configured to use fetchmail? I am not too familiar >with sendmail or fetchmail. Can someone give me a general overview on what i >need to do?
The default fetchmail configuration delivers fetched mail by making an SMTP connection to localhost. That requires that an SMTP daemon (like sendmail) be running on the local machine. Your machine does not appear to be running an SMTP daemon. You can either setup an SMTP daemon or tell fetchmail to deliver to procmail. The fact is that sendmail also uses procmail for local delivery, so calling procmail directly skips the unnecessary step of going through sendmail first. The fetchmailrc might look like this: defaults protocol POP3 fetchall nokeep mda "procmail -d $LOGNAME" poll pop.myisp.com username myusername password mypassword Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0x6C94239D iD8DBQE84AuFpCpg3WyUI50RApGpAKDb+02Maz+xKREWc56Y++dfvGicewCbBQ6w wjH/KMDzz//ZSbBUVjdqwR0= =1r+r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
