Re: [fetchmail-users] SMTP connect error with fetchmail under Cygwin

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

On Fri, 11 May 2007, Kyle Contreras-Barbour wrote:

> Then, after going through a long series of asterisks and periods, fetchmail
> reports a socket error and ends with 'status=2'.
> 
> Does anybody know what I might be doing wrong here? Any help would be
> greatly appreciated, and apologies all around if I'm just being very silly
> or should be asking on a Cygwin list.

First of all, is your fetchmail current? Should be 6.3.8, but 6.3.6
should also work somewhat.

Next, do you have procmail installed?

Both can be fixed with the Cygwin setup.exe.

Third, if you originally injected into Exim or some such, be sure to
start that daemon at boot time (requires some NT-ish operating system
AFAICS, NT, Win2K, XP or Vi$ta, details are in Jason Tishler's
cygwin-readme file that should be on your system).

-- 
Matthias Andree