On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 06:37, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> 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 ?
This may be the cause of the problem. I cannot telnet into localhost 25.
I have no firewall running on this machine as it usually connects to the
Net thru server which has a firewall.
Do you have any idea what may be causing this?
> IIRC debian starts exim via inetd (don't ask me why ...), so maybe you
> should start there.
What does IIRC stand for?
>
> Nico
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