fetchmail and gmail and ssl

[Hal Burgiss]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:22:26AM -0700, Admin wrote:
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:25              0.0.0.0:* 
> LISTEN      1577/smtpd
> tcp6       0      0 :::25                   :::* 
> LISTEN      1577/smtpd

[...]
 
> >> <username at localhost>: delivery temporarily suspended: connect to
> >>      localhost[10.11.12.13]:25: Connection timed out
> > 
> Am I  looking specifically for the Process smtpd?  Or could post fix be 
> operating under another daemon name?

That tells you what you need to know: there is a smtp process listening where
one would expect on all interfaces. Does the 10.11.12.13 address look familiar
to you? Is it bound to any interface on the current machine? Do you have a
firewall / iptables script running?

Other points of interest:

The output of 'ifconfig'. 

The output of 'iptables -L -n -v'.

What happens when you telnet to port 25? 

$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 honey.burgiss.net ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu)
quit
221 2.0.0 Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.


I think I might consider just unintalling everything mail related on your
system (apt-get --purge or somesuch to get rid of all config files), and start
from scratch, with all default settings. It should work out of the box with
very little heartburn.

-- 
Hal