[wplug] fetchmail-postfix-smtp problem

[Scott F. Kiesling]

OK, but I thought postfix had a sendmail or sendmail emulator, that
listened for SMTP (is that right?). How do I get it, or sendmail, to
listen? Postfix is running.

SFK

On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 15:31, Mike Kuentz (2) wrote:
> 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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