Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail Error Message

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 11/5/06, Gerard Seibert <ge...@se...> wrote:
> FreeBSD 6.1 STABLE
> Postfix-2.4-20061019
> Fetchmail release 6.3.5+RPA+SDPS+SSL+OPIE+NLS.
>
> I have just updated to the latest version of Fetchmail. Prior to this
> update, Fetchmail had run flawlessly. Unfortunately, it now appears to
> be suffering some problems.
>
> This is a truncated version of my /var/log/maillog:
>
> Nov  5 00:01:28 scorpio fetchmail[734]: 1 message for ge...@se... at pop.gmail.com (4441 octets).
> Nov  5 00:01:29 scorpio fetchmail[734]: reading message ge...@se...@gmail-pop.l.google.com:1 of 1 (4441 octets) (log message incomplete)
> Nov  5 00:01:29 scorpio fetchmail[734]: connection to localhost:smtp [::1/25] failed: Connection refused.
<---SNIP--->
> It does not appear that I am losing any mail. However, all of the
> accounts are not setup as of yet. Once the system is fully functional, I
> cannot afford to have any problems.
>
> As I previously stated, I never experienced any problems with the older
> version of Fetchmail. Since that is the only thing that I have updated
> in a few weeks, this problem has to be related to that update.

Looks like you've got "localhost" resolving via IPv6 but your SMTP
server isn't listening on IPv6 (and you really only needed to post one
copy of the error :>).

You'll want to either configure postfix to listen on IPv6 or give
fetchmail a hostname that only has an IPv4 address.

This may only have come to light as a result of some of the IPv6 fixes
mentioned in the fetchmail change log.

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