[sllug-members]: Fetchmail localhost error

[Lamont Peterson]

On Thursday 22 March 2007 08:47am, Corey Edwards wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 08:29 -0600, Jared Bernard wrote:
> > jared at zarahemla:~$ telnet localhost 25
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> >
> >
> >         You do have a working Mail Transfer Agent working, (Sendmail
> >         etc.)?
> >
> > I thought Fetchmail was a MTA? I guessing it's not. Do I need to set
> > up Sendmail?
>
> Fetchmail is an MTA of sorts, but what it is not is an Message Delivery
> Agent, MDA. That's what you need Sendmail for (or Postfix, Exim, etc.).

Fetchmail is not an MTA; it's a non-interactive command line MUA (Mail User 
Agent) and MSP (Mail Submission Program), or in other words a non-interactive 
command line automated mail client.  It connects to one or more mail servers 
in the same way you would with the mail client of your choice but instead of 
displaying a list of your messages, it resubmits them to another MTA of your 
choice.

The whole idea is to allow one to easily aggregate all of their disparate 
email accounts into a single account on a server of your choosing.
-- 
Lamont Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com>
Senior Instructor
Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ]

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