Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail Error Message

[Gerard S. <ge...@se...>]

On Monday November 06, 2006 at 12:39:21 (PM) cron wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 03:28:34PM -0500, Gerard Seibert 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.
> 
> you can't connect to postfix
> try another mda in fetchmai and see if it works


I have already corrected the problem. It seems that the new version of
Fetchmail treats IPv6 differently than the older version. I simply
disabled IPv6 on my system and the problem went away. There is no reason
to use IPv6 presently anyway. It really only exists in a lab.

The developers of Fetchmail might want to investigate this further
though.

-- 
Gerard