[sllug-members]: Fetchmail localhost error

[Ken P]

Jared Bernard wrote:
> This is my first time setting up fetchmail and I'm getting a localhost
> error.
>
> $ fetchmail
> fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: Ipswitch,Inc. !=
> mail.csolutions.net
> fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: self signed certificate
> 16 messages for nixon at firston.com at mail.csolutions.net (116640 octets).
> reading message nixon at firston.com@mail.csolutions.net:1 of 16 (9656
> octets)
> .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from
> nixon at firston.com@mail.csolutions.net and delivering to SMTP host
> localhost
> fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
>
> My .fetchmailrc file looks like this:
>
> poll mail.csolutions.net with proto POP3 user 'nixon at firston.com'
> there with
> password 'xxxxxx' is 'mail'
> here options ssl
>
> I googled: fetchmail "SMTP connect to localhost failed"
> and found results saying that my localhost isn't configured right, but I
> don't think that is the case.
> though when I telnet localhost I get
Try  telnet localhost smtp  or  telnet localhost 25 , either one should
work.

kprims at kiki:~$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 kiki.kgab.org ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.8/8.13.8; Wed, 21 Mar 2007
17:01:01 -0600
quit
221 2.0.0 kiki.kgab.org closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.

You do have a working Mail Transfer Agent working, (Sendmail etc.)?

HTH

Ken
>
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>
> but when I ping localhost I get a response.
>
> I'd appreciate any help someone could give.
>
> Thanks,
> Jared
>
>