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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsgate.ptd.net!news.ptd.net!not-for-mail From: "T.M. Sommers" <tms2@postoffice.ptd.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: fetchmail problem Date: 26 May 1997 18:45:47 GMT Organization: None Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3389DA60.56C@postoffice.ptd.net> References: <33888352.17AE@postoffice.ptd.net> <lyak9knfhvp.fsf@alex.stacken.kth.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: du22.cli.ptd.net NNTP-Posting-User: tms2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41634 Tom Backman wrote: > > >I'm using FreeBSD 2.2.1R from the CDROM. Although fetchmail seems to > >connect to the mail server okay, it fails to connect and aborts with > >exit code 9 when trying to retrieve the first message. Any help would be > >appreciated. > > > [Stuff snipped for clarity] > > >reading message 1 (1908 bytes)fetchmail: SMTP connect failed > > This means that it wasnt able to connect to the sendmail on your machine. > It uses your local sendmail to deliver the messages, unless you tell it > otherwise. > > If you dont have a sendmail or similar mailhandler running, you need to tell > fetchmail to not use smtp. > > / Tom Thanks a lot. Turns out that it was a routing problem, not sendmail, but the clue I needed was that the problem was on my end, not the ISP's. Fixing it also fixed a problem I had with talk.