On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Francesco wrote: f> Hi, f> f> Probably a silly question but why would fetchmail be unable to establish smtp f> connection to local host? Local is pingable and it seems to collect the mail f> but then fails with the above error. f> Check your rc.config file for the SMTP= option, make sure it's set to yes. # # have mail daemon on SMTP port? ("yes" or "no") # needed, if you receive email from other hosts via tcp/ip # not needed, if you have a uucp-only host or only out-going email. # If set to "yes", sendmail will be started as daemon. # As uucp site, you can get along with "SMTP=no", if you make # a "sendmail -q" call after each poll. (As rmail is queuing the mail only # and not delivering it...) # SMTP="yes" Should fix it after that change. f> TIA, f> f> Francesco f> f> f> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v6.3+ - Kernel 2.2.14 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/