On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Todd Goldenbaum wrote:
I am trying to replicate a fetchmail setup I had working on a linux
machine, on my OS X machine (10.2.3).
When I first got the Mac, I took the mail.app program for a spin, with
all my information for pop, smtp, etc. It worked fine.
When I tried to run fetchmail (using the same email
address/configuration,) it fails with the log looking like this:
fetchmail: starting fetchmail 6.1.2 daemon
bind: Address already in use
channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 12345
Could not request local forwarding.
fetchmail: 37 messages for todd(_at_)marigoldtech(_dot_)com at localhost
(231373 octets).
fetchmail: reading message todd(_at_)marigoldtech(_dot_)com@localhost:1 of 37
(2157 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.marigoldtech.com
fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
fetchmail: sleeping at Thu, 06 Feb 2003 11:38:27 -0700 (MST)
I thought this probably had something to do with the prior mail.app setup I
mentioned, so I deleted my user within mail.app and restarted the machine,
but I get the same error. That's the only thing I could think of that might
be causing this... any ideas how I can force bind to let my address go, if
that is indeed the problem?
It appears that fetchmail is trying to connect to your machine on stmp
(25), where your mail daemon (sendmail, qmail, etc) would normally be
listening. That doesn't seem to be working, so it could be you don't have
anything listening, or it's firewalled.
I'm not sure why you'd have someting bound to 12345 already, but that is
probably the issue. While I don't really know Mac, it should (since it's
BSD), have a 'sockstat' command that you can use to find out what has it
open.
Lastly, I found this, but it isn't very detailed...
http://homepage.mac.com/bighouse/fetchmail.html
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Matt Piechota