[fetchmail]SMTP problem

[Bo Grimes]

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I just found this in /var/spool/exim4/input:

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Bo Grimes wrote:

> I'm trying to learn mutt, so I installed fetchmail.  I've tried to 
> solve this with Google, FAQs and the Linux Admin Handbook, but I'm 
> stumped.  The best I can tell is the problem isn't with fetchmail but 
> with Exim.  I have 5 email addresses with my isp, and I usually use 
> Evolution and Thunderbird.  I didn't want to mess with any of those at 
> this time, so I am trying this out with a seperate pop account with 
> Newsguy.
>
> After running fetchmailconf, if I leave the local names section out, 
> fetchmail has no problem checking the account and telling me there's 
> mail, but it doesn't actually fetch it.  If I put my username for my 
> Linux box into the local names section and nothing else this is what I 
> get.  (Strider is the name of my Linux box, and my username has been 
> replaced throughout with [username]):
>
> reading message [username]@pop.newsguy.com:1 of 1 (1721 octets)
> fetchmail: SMTP< 220 strider ESMTP Exim 4.50 Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:23:58 
> -0400
> fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250-strider Hello strider [127.0.0.1]
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE 52428800
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP
> fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<[username@isp.com> SIZE=1721
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 OK
> fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<[username]@localhost>
> fetchmail: SMTP< 451 Temporary local problem - please try later
> fetchmail: SMTP error: 451 Temporary local problem - please try later
> fetchmail: SMTP> RSET
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Reset OK
>
> Basically all the POP3 command work, but the SMTP ones don't once it 
> gets to the local name.
>
> I have both Exim and sendmail.  It looks like fetchmail is trying to 
> use exim rather than sendmail.  Does this matter?
>
> I've looked all over /etc at /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf and 
> /var/mail.  I don't know if this is an Exim conf problem, an issue of 
> which MTA I'm using or if my FQDM is wrong, or what.
>
> I'm not a techie, admin, or guru of any sort.  I've tried to figure it 
> out on my own as an exercise, but I just don't have a clue.  I want 
> fetchmail to deliver my mail from this pop to /var/mail/[username], 
> where mutt defaults,  and I just can't make it happen.
>
> Any ideas?  TIA
>
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