On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Jeffrey Ohlmann wrote:

> I'm trying to use fetchmail to retrieve mail from my ISP to read
> locally with Pine.  I believe I have my .fetchmailrc file configured
> correctly, but when I attempt to get the mail, I receive the following:
> 
> 1 message for jaohlma at <hostname.domain> (671 octets).
> reading message 1 of 1 (671 octets)
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
                             ^^^^^^^^^
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from <hostname.domain>
> fetchmail: Query status=10
> 
> Where of course <hostname.domain> is been replaced by the actual FQDN.

Do you have sendmail running? The default config should be fine, so
"/usr/sbin/sendmail /etc/sendmail.cf" should do. You could also set
sendmail=YES in /etc/rc.conf. You should also edit /etc/aliases to set
"postmaster" and "root" to your user, and run "newaliases".