Re: [LI] incoming email problem

[Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, thus spake New Star Service Co.:
> 
> > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error which fetching from pop3.globalctg.net
> > fetchmail: query status=10
> 
> >From man fetchmail (1)
> 
> > > Error 10: Fetchmail failed while trying to do an SMTP port 
> > > open or transaction
> 
> Several people faced that problem yesterday :)  Maybe we can blame VSNL
> for that?  I downloaded my mail from windoze for the first time in several
> weeks.  It worked there.  In Linux, I played around with various things,
> including changing my hostname, it suddenly started working :)


This errormessage simply tells you that it cannot connect to localhost on
port 25.

Two reasons for this:

1. You have nothing running on port 25 (no sendmail)

or

2. You don't have a definition for "localhost".

Simple test:

As an ordinary user, 

telnet localhost 25

If you get an errormessage, you will know what the problem is.

Atul


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