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Old 03-10-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by c19h28O2
Hi,

Thanks that worked, I'm now getting an

fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [::1/25] failed: Connection refused.

error?

any ideas?
fetchmail is trying to email you the messages via the local server versus stuffing them in a file or what have you. You need to look at the documentation to determine what is best.

If you have no smtp server running on your osx machine and your trying to read mail with Mail.app, why not just imap the mail via Mail.app?
 

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