Re: Debian 11: MTA Exim4 not listening to fetchmail

2022-07-11 Thread Roger Price
On Sun, 10 Jul 2022 17:12:18 +0100, Gareth Evans wrote: On Sun 10 Jul 2022, at 15:38, Roger Price wrote: [...] I removed the ipv6.disable=1 and rebooted, but this made no difference. I'm not sure if there may be other issues here too, but did you update-grub before rebooting? No, I

Re: Debian 11: MTA Exim4 not listening to fetchmail

2022-07-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 10:57:40PM +0100, Gareth Evans wrote: > $ sudo reboot > - set boot arg ipv6.disable=1 > - NB ipv6 addresses still in /etc/hosts > > $ telnet localhost 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Trying ::1... > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Address family not supported by >

Re: Debian 11: MTA Exim4 not listening to fetchmail

2022-07-10 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 10 Jul 2022, at 18:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Mine contains these lines: > > unicorn:~$ grep ::1 /etc/hosts > ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback > ff02::1 ip6-allnodes > > They were put there by Debian. I didn't touch them. [I got the ::1 and localhost the wrong way around in

Re: Debian 11: MTA Exim4 not listening to fetchmail

2022-07-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 05:12:18PM +0100, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Sun 10 Jul 2022, at 15:38, Roger Price wrote: > [...] > > I removed the ipv6.disable=1 and rebooted, but this made no difference. > > I'm not sure if there may be other issues here too, but did you update-grub > before

Re: Debian 11: MTA Exim4 not listening to fetchmail

2022-07-10 Thread Nicolas George
Roger Price (12022-07-10): > I have successfully used fetchmail and the MTA exim4 to receive mail on a > Debian 9 machine for several years. I am now trying to migrate this to > Debian 11, but fetchmail no longer talks to exim4. I have never understood why fetchmail's default operation was to

Re: Debian 11: MTA Exim4 not listening to fetchmail

2022-07-10 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 10 Jul 2022, at 17:12, Gareth Evans wrote: > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/407663/ipv6-socket-creation-failed-address-family-not-supported-by-protocol FWIMBW, this explains how to disable ipv6 for exim4 (albeit on Deb 9) though I'm not sure the advice re hosts file is

Re: Debian 11: MTA Exim4 not listening to fetchmail

2022-07-10 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 10 Jul 2022, at 15:38, Roger Price wrote: [...] > I removed the ipv6.disable=1 and rebooted, but this made no difference. I'm not sure if there may be other issues here too, but did you update-grub before rebooting? If not, does /etc/hosts currently contain localhost ::1 ? If so,

Re: Debian 11: MTA Exim4 not listening to fetchmail

2022-07-10 Thread gene heskett
On 7/10/22 10:41, Roger Price wrote: I have successfully used fetchmail and the MTA exim4 to receive mail on a Debian 9 machine for several years.  I am now trying to migrate this to Debian 11, but fetchmail no longer talks to exim4. systemctl status fetchmail reports   ● fetchmail.service -

Debian 11: MTA Exim4 not listening to fetchmail

2022-07-10 Thread Roger Price
I have successfully used fetchmail and the MTA exim4 to receive mail on a Debian 9 machine for several years. I am now trying to migrate this to Debian 11, but fetchmail no longer talks to exim4. systemctl status fetchmail reports ● fetchmail.service - LSB: init-Script for system wide