Re: fetchmail fails with smtp error

1998-01-07 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Mon, 05 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I think I've heard odd things about networking on hamm not knowing about localhost - tell me, is localhost mentioned in /etc/hosts? Can you telnet to localhost? What does /etc/host.conf look like? /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1

Re: fetchmail fails with smtp error

1998-01-06 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: On my hamm system, fetchmail fails with the following message: bob:vc-2:bobfetchmail fetchmail: 29 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED] reading message 1 (4310 bytes) ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error

Re: fetchmail fails with smtp error

1998-01-06 Thread Orn E. Hansen
fetchmail: 29 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED] reading message 1 (4310 bytes) ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from post.metrolink.net Upgrade the netbase and netstd packages.

Re: fetchmail fails with smtp error

1998-01-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) writes: On my hamm system, fetchmail fails with the following message: bob:vc-2:bobfetchmail fetchmail: 29 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED] reading message 1 (4310 bytes) ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error

Re: fetchmail fails with smtp error

1998-01-06 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Thanks, Scott, it works as advertised now. I have now checked and find that it is Bug#16147. I would never have suspected smail of being the culprit. Bob On Mon, 5 Jan 1998 Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, the latest smail package messes up if you want it installed in

fetchmail fails with smtp error

1998-01-05 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On my hamm system, fetchmail fails with the following message: bob:vc-2:bobfetchmail fetchmail: 29 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED] reading message 1 (4310 bytes) ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from post.metrolink.net I have