Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 03:13:44 -0600 (MDT) From: "James R. Shrenk" <dionysos3@crosswinds.net> To: Ghulam Dastgir <banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fetchmail problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906080311420.6452-100000@neptune.twrol.com> In-Reply-To: <01beb1c7$f55eedc0$LocalHost@signup>
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check out www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.html#R1 looks like fetchmail may be working just fine, but when it tries to put it through sendmail, it's not able to. Is sendmail running? James On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Ghulam Dastgir wrote: > I am still having problems with fetchmail. Now after typing: > > $ fetchmail -p POP3 -u ghulam mail.force9.net > > Fetchmail says that there are x messages waiting for me. It tries > downloading but then times out with: > > fetchmail: SMTP connect to voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk failed: Operation > timed out > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.force9.net > > What could be causing this? > Thanks, > Ghulam > > > -----Original Message----- > From: James R. Shrenk <dionysos3@crosswinds.net> > To: Ghulam Dastgir <banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk> > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Date: Monday, June 07, 1999 2:52 AM > Subject: Re: Fetchmail problems > > >Try adding "-p POP3" before the -u flag. It looks like mail.force9.net > >doesn't respond to IMAP requests (which seems to be what fetchmail often > >defaults to). > > > >James > > > >On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Ghulam Dastgir wrote: > > > >> I am having problems with my fetchmail. After the PPP link's up I type: > >> > >> $ fetchmail -u ghulam mail.force9.net > >> > >> Then I get the password prompt, after which the following output: > >> > >> fetchmail: IMAP connection to mail.force9.net failed: local error: > Connection refused > >> fetchmail: 1 message for ghulam at mail.force9.net > >> reading message 1 of 1 (2075 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to > voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk failed: Operation timed out > >> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.force9.net > >> > >> Any ideas what the problem is here?? > >> > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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