mpierce wrote:
> It appears that exim (exim-tls 3.35-3woody1) is not listening to my
> local loopback connection since having to use dialup as I am getting the
> following error when cron launches fetchmail every 15 minutes:
>
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from
> mail.optusnet.com.au
> fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
Have you tried telnet localhost 25 ?
IIRC debian starts exim via inetd (don't ask me why ...), so maybe you
should start there.
