[wplug] fetchmail-postfix-smtp problem

Mike Kuentz (2) JunkEmail at rapidigm.com
Thu Nov 20 15:31:32 EST 2003


sounds like you don't have sendmail (or anything that's listens for
SMTP) running

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On 
> Behalf Of kiesling+ at pitt.edu
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:12 PM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: [wplug] fetchmail-postfix-smtp problem
> 
> 
> 
> I upgraded my evolution, fetchmail, and postfix on my gentoo 
> laptop yesterday. Bad idea. Fetchmail is not working, and it 
> has to do with SMTP listening (I think) but I'm still too 
> much of a novice to know exactly how to fix it, even after 
> some searching on the net. Here is what happens when I 
> "fetchmail -v" (just the end of it):
> 
> reading message kiesling at imap.pitt.edu:1 of 38 (1160 header octets)
> fetchmail: smtp listener protocol error
> fetchmail: smtp listener protocol error
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: IMAP> A0007 LOGOUT
> fetchmail: IMAP< )
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0006 OK Completed
> fetchmail: IMAP< * BYE LOGOUT received
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0007 OK Completed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from imap.pitt.edu
> fetchmail: 6.2.3 querying imap.pitt.edu (protocol IMAP) at 
> Thu Nov 20 11:38:37 2003: poll completed
> fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 10
> 
> I know nothing about SMTP, and little on the net documents 
> what to do with it using Postfix. Can anyone suggest something?
> 
> Thanks
> Scott
> 
> 
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