From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 3 8:39:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.bsag.ch (ns.bsag.ch [62.2.201.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC9C637B404 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 08:39:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.bsag.ch (root@localhost) by ns.bsag.ch with ESMTP id g43FgNt06101 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 17:42:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ns.bsag.ch (bs13.bsag.ch [192.168.1.13]) by gw.bsag.ch with ESMTP id g43FgNU06097 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 17:42:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from hpr@localhost) by ns.bsag.ch (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id g43FdrI16442 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 3 May 2002 17:39:53 +0200 Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 17:39:53 +0200 From: Hanspeter Roth To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail Message-ID: <20020503173953.A16290@bsag.ch> Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: ; from brian.henning@navitaire.com on Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:31:49AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On May 03 at 10:31, Henning, Brian spoke: > Hanspeter, > > thanks for the help. > > i turned off send mail in my rc.conf file because it made bsd hang. > fyi, i am behind a firewall. Ok. Then no MTA (sendmail etc.) is listening on port 25. You may try to fix the cause of the haning of sendmail. Maybe a problem with /etc/resolv.conf or /etc/hosts? Or you may try fetchmail with --mda (man fetchmail). -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message