Subject: Re: fetchmail and telnet will not talk to localhost port 25
To: Dave Millen <root@globalnet.co.uk>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/29/1998 15:37:50
Dave Millen writes:
> reading message 1 of 4 (1717 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused
Do a "netstat -f inet -a"
Make sure something is listening on port 25.
If not, make sure sendmail is *really* run -bd (see ps(1)), and if it
is, then you might want to check the syslog to see if it is
complaining about a bad sendmail configuration file.
You have configured sendmail I hope!
Perry