Fetchmail: Error message in maillog

Jonathan McKeown jonathan at hst.org.za
Mon Nov 6 06:59:39 UTC 2006


On Saturday 04 November 2006 20:08, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> FreeBSD 6.1
> Fetchmail release 6.3.5+RPA+SDPS+SSL+OPIE+NLS.
>
> I had been running fetchmail without incident for over a year. I then did
> something stupid; I updated it. Now, it produces this error message in
> the /var/maillog file:
>
>
> Nov  4 12:57:52 scorpio fetchmail[734]: connection to localhost:smtp
> [::1/25] failed: Connection refused.

Possibly silly question: it's failing to connect to the IPv6 loopback. Is it 
possible that something changed as regards IPv6/IPv4 as part of the update?

Jonathan


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