> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:22:04PM +0000, dan moylan wrote:
>>
>> the last (known) problem resulting from my belated upgrade
>> to rh9.0 is that fetchmail seems not to work.  my old perl
>> script for popping mail still works ok, but for various
>> reasons i'd rather continue using fetchmail.  my
>> .fetchmailrc file looks like this:
>>
>> # .fetchmailrc
>>
>>   poll pop.rcn.com protocol pop3 username jdm34 password xxxxxxxx
>>   smtp host localhost
>>
>> and here's what i get after invoking fetchmail:
>>
>> 1 message for jdm34 at pop.rcn.com (5958 octets).
>> reading message jdm34@pop.rcn.com:1 of 1 (5958 octets)
>> fetchmail: fetchmail: getaddrinfo(host.smtp)
>> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed

dsr writes:
> It wants to deliver to a local mail transporter listening
> on port 25. Is there one?

ah . . . no.  sendmail wasn't starting.  i had a wrong permission
set in /etc.  all fixed now.  all working.

thanks,
dan

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