Re: fetchmail +SMTP error

[Brad <brad@comstyle.com>]

Well you have todo some debugging with your setup ... they should be going
in your /var/mail/[login name] box. /var/spool/mqueue is for your outgoing
mail that has been spooled. By default fetchmail sends e-mail to the MTA
on localhost unless told otherwise. mail(1) *should* be reading e-mail
from /var/mail/[login name].

// Brad

brad@comstyle.com
brad@openbsd.org

>Brad ---
>
>Thanks for your reply.
>I remembered seeing that in rc.conf , after reading Cam's replay. After
>making that change,
>fetchmail did retrieve my email, but I don't no where ... mail(x)
>doesn't retrieve it form the /var/mail
>or /var/spool/mqueue? Fetchmail seems to being sending it to /dev/null
>(which will save on hd space :) ) .
>
>Dave
>
>
>Brad wrote:
>
>> That means you don't have Sendmail or some other MTA running on your
>> system. To enable Sendmail you need to edit /etc/rc.conf and add "-bd" to
>> the command line for Sendmail (so it'll load properly on any subsequent
>> reboots). Manually execute it as root by typing "/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd
>> -q30m".
>>
>> // Brad
>>
>> brad@comstyle.com
>> brad@openbsd.org
>>
>>> Friends --
>>>
>>>
>>> Fetchmail is failing with the following error, when I try to retrieve
>>> my email. Any suggestions ?
>>>
>>> David Jackson
>>>
>>>
>>> sunwarship : davej % fetchmail mail.dnvr.qwest.net -u cjamblues
>>> Enter password for cjamblues@mail.dnvr.qwest.net: <mailto:cjamblues@mail.dnvr.qwest.net:>
>>> fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.dnvr.qwest.net
>>>
>>> 34 messages for cjamblues at pop.dnvr.uswest.net (190338 octets).
>>> reading message 1 of 34 (2661 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
>>> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.dnvr.qwest.net
>>> fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)