On 2007-06-19, andrew wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A final fetchmail question :-) I am in the process of setting up
> ssmtp (send), mutt (read) and fetchmail (fetch!) from a gmail account.
> I have ssmtp configured and working well and I have fetchmail
> connecting to the gmail server. But I have an error message at my end:
>
> Trying to connect to 127.0.0.1/25...connection failed.
> fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed:
> Connection refused.
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
>
> I have a suspicion that I need another program to deal with the mail
> that fetchmail is attempting to deliver to the local machine?
>

Ahh, now I see, said the blind man. Do I need procmail?

Andrew

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andrew wrote:
> On 2007-06-19, andrew wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> A final fetchmail question :-) I am in the process of setting up
>> ssmtp (send), mutt (read) and fetchmail (fetch!) from a gmail account.
>> I have ssmtp configured and working well and I have fetchmail
>> connecting to the gmail server. But I have an error message at my end:
>>
>> Trying to connect to 127.0.0.1/25...connection failed.
>> fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed:
>> Connection refused.
>> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
>>
>> I have a suspicion that I need another program to deal with the mail
>> that fetchmail is attempting to deliver to the local machine?
>>
>
> Ahh, now I see, said the blind man. Do I need procmail?
>
> Andrew
>
What do you mean by delivery to a local machine? A local machine (mail
client) normally reads mail from a POP3 or an IMAP server depending on
whether you want the actual emails to reside on your local server or
client. If in doubt, keep your mail on a server so you can access it
from anywhere that can talk to your server, i.e. use IMAP. So you need
to run an IMAP server (like uw-imapd or cyrus-imapd).

Then you need to deliver your email to your IMAP server. So you also
need a Mail Transport Agent (Ubuntu likes postfix by default or you can
use exim4 or sendmail) that will pick up your mail from port 25 and do
the delivery.

It is actually quite easy to set up such programs: default
configurations tend to work.