From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 20 21:31:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19F2437B42C for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:31:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com ([64.6.211.149]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:30:44 -0700 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA21616; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:31:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:31:44 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: david@SkytrackerCanada.com Cc: bsd Subject: Re: fetchmail problem with a POP3 account Message-ID: <20000820213144.A28027@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <39A07EEF.3C9DD700@www3.pacific-pages.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <39A07EEF.3C9DD700@www3.pacific-pages.com>; from david@www3.pacific-pages.com on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:59:27PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:59:27PM -0400, David Banning wrote: > my popclient and fetchmail programs work fine, but not with this one > mail server. > > problem is I CAN collect mail off their server, if use netscape mail > to collect. Here is what I use for collectiing my mail > (which works fine for 4 other POP3 accounts I have) > > fetchmail -v -v -p POP3 getmail.banning.com -u david > > Enter password for david@getmail.banning.com: > fetchmail: 5.4.3 querying getmail.banning.com (protocol POP3) at Sun, 20 > Aug 2000 20:49:43 -0400 (EDT) [snip] > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed It looks like you don't have a MTA listening on your local machine. But you say other mailservers work OK? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message