From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 21 8:35:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www3.pacific-pages.com (www3.pacific-pages.com [192.41.48.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E49537B422 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:35:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www3.pacific-pages.com ([216.191.60.100]) by www3.pacific-pages.com (8.8.5) id JAA21210; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:34:23 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <39A14BA5.81198C9F@www3.pacific-pages.com> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:32:53 -0400 From: David Banning Reply-To: david@SkytrackerCanada.com Organization: Sky-Tracker of Canada Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: bsd Subject: Re: fetchmail problem with a POP3 account References: <39A07EEF.3C9DD700@www3.pacific-pages.com> <20000820213144.A28027@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Crist J . Clark" wrote: > > 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. How do I check for that? >But you say other mailservers work OK? They work fine - all originally using poplient - but since I couldn't load from this one server, I tried fetchmail - which also has a problem only with with this one mail server. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message