Fetchmail - connection to localhost: smpt failed: Connection refused

Wade Smart wadesmart at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 16:40:06 UTC 2009


On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:22, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:43:26AM -0500, Wade Smart wrote:
>> So I installed fetchmail/postfix/dovecot
>>
>> My mail was in /home/maildir on my last system but now its
>> /data/wadesmart/maildir
>>
>> Postfix:
>> mydomain = wadesmart.com
>> myhostname = mail.wadesmart.com
>> mydestination = wadesmart.com, localhost.localdomain, localhsot
>> mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
>> home_mailbox = data/wadesmart/maildir
>>
>> When I start fetchmail I receive this error:
>> fetchmail[6528] connection to localhost:smtp [::1/25] failed:
>> Connection refused.
>
> Is postfix actually running?  I will assume the answer is no, and
> suggest trying sudo /etc/init.d/postfix start and checking to see if
> there are any error messages printed to the console or the system log
> files.
>
> Marius Gedminas
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Postfix is running.

postfix/master[2741]: daemon started -- version 2.5.5, configuration
/etc/postfix
postfix/master[2741]: reload configuration /etc/postfix
fetchmail[5388]: starting fetchmail 6.3.9-rc2 daemon
fetchmail[5388]: connection to localhost:smpt[::1/25] fail: Connection refused.
postfix/smtpd[5398]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]

Wade
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