Mail server issues

[Gerry Doris]

On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Brian Witowski wrote:

> I am getting the following error in my fetchmail log file upon trying to get
> mail from a POP3/IMAP account:
> 
> 
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: can't raise the listener; falling back to /usr/bin/procmail -d
> %Tfetc
> hmail: IMAP< )
> 
> I only get it with one account.  I don't have a problem with it 'falling
> back' but it takes about 7 or 8 minutes to time out.  I don't know enough
> about email to figure out what it's trying to do.  Any suggestions as to
> what is causing the error and how to fix it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian
> 
I believe it is trying to say that it can't deliver to sendmail.  If 
you're sure that sendmail is running and this only happens with one 
account then check that you've got the user name correct in fetchmail.  

Is the user name at the remote server the same as the local where you're
trying to deliver the mail? If the names are different then you should be
using something like the following line in fetchmailrc

poll remote_server with proto POP3 user fred at mail.server.com there with 
passwd is harry here

Gerry
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