On 03/16/2016 08:35 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
I wished to set up a Fedora 23 notebook to pick up email via fetchmail. A problem I'd solved long ago on other distros and releases. fetchmail failed because it tried to use SMTP with localhost to do the local delivery and nobody was listening for SMTP. That got removed from the default install perhaps sometime around Fedora 20. So I installed postfix. That didn't work. I may have done some other things in desperation -- I was actually directing my user to do the sysadmining via intermittent email between different cities. This was a month ago so my memory is foggy.
Can you recall if you installed postfix via RPM? I believe the post-install part of the RPM is supposed to set up the /etc/alternatives stuff as well as the appropriate symlinks to make it "spoof" ye olde sendmail mechanisms. <snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
