dan ritter wrote: > Well, that says you are not running a local mail server. Minus > the passwords, what does your fetchmailrc look like? Is it > trying to deliver to a local mail server? > > If so, you should start whatever server you stopped. Exim? > Postfix? qmail? sendmail? hmmmm. i have no idea why it stopped, but postfix had indeed stopped. it is now running and all is well. thank you (and greg boyce, and nathan meyers). dan j. daniel moylan 84 harvard ave brookline, ma 02446-6202 617-232-2360 (tel) 810-454-1823 (fax) jdm-LPA1KyJyIuz1P9xLtpHBDw@public.gmane.org www.moylan.us [death to html bloat!]