Hi Charles, The error: .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed suggests it is trying to sendmail to the localhost, which if you do a ping localhost on the command line, it should resolve to 127.0.0.1. I suggest because you disabled accepting mail on the address 127.0.0.1, is edit your /etc/hosts file to make localhost resolve to 192.168.0.3. eg: 192.168.0.3 localhost Hope that helps. Cheers, Adrian > I have loaded RH9 on my RH8 box, and now I am having trouble getting > sendmail to receive mail. It sends just fine. I use fetchmail (and a > .fetchmailrc file in /root) in a cron. I now get the following error: > > .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from smtp.tds.net > > localhost, localhost.localdomain, are both in the access file and in > the local-host-names, and I have as usual changed > > DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=192.168.0.3, Name=MTA')dnl > > to remove the 127.0.0.1 and changed to the IP address above. Finally, > /etc/sysconfig/sendmail has daemon=yes and queue=1h > > So, there is something obvious I am missing. Can anyone help? > > TIA > > Cheers-- > Charles > > > > > --- > Remember the heroes of UAL 93 > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
