Mail server issues
Brian Witowski
brianw
Mon May 17 11:34:04 PDT 2004
> > 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 %T
fetchmail: 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?
> >
>
> 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
Sendmail is running, if I do ps -ax it shows sendmail: accepting
connections.
My wife has her own email account on a different domain, and hers works
fine. Now I have to pinpoint what the differences are.
The local and remote usernames are the same.
Brian
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