It sounds as though fetchmail is trying to connect to sendmail on your local machine, but you don't have sendmail running. --Michael Gorse / ICQ:22583968 / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Ok, I had to taotally re-install this weekend. I was trying to build a > rootdisk and I accidentally deleted an important directory off of my > system instead of the rootdisk in progress. The good thing about it is > that i now know that I am able to reinstall by myself. > I of course installed exim and fetchmail. I can send mail but I can't > fetch it. I can fetch at shellworld > so I know it isn't a problem with any of my email accounts. I can send, > though I did have to put an entry in "/etc/email-addresses to accomplish > that. I can use fetchmail to check how many messages there are, and if > there is no message fetchmail terminates normally. If there are messages, > however, I get no messages fetched because ai get '"smtp connection to > localhost failed". I went back to my ppp account briefly without my dsl up > to see if that was the source of the problem, but it wasn't. I obviously > have something configured incorrectly on my machine, and any suggestions > would be appreciated because I have been working and working at trying to > solve this. I will still be able to read replies by going to shellworld > and fetching for all of my accounts there. Thanks. >