From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 11 06:21:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA08231 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 06:21:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA08199 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 06:20:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@umontreal.ca) Received: from epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca (epsom.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.25]) by harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA06127 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 08:46:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from outpost.nada.org (derby.jsp.umontreal.ca [132.204.46.26]) by epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca via SMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id IAA06528 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 08:46:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 08:47:14 -0400 (EDT) From: beaupran X-Sender: root@outpost.nada.org Reply-To: beaupran To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: fetchmail on remote POP3 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! I recently set up an Internet connection via ppp. So I got this daemon running back there, I can do ftp, lynx, send mail, etc. But, when I try to get mail on the remote host (which uses POP3), I get te following error message after a few seconds: gethostbyname failed for outpost.nada.org (which is my hostname) What does _that_ means!? My .fetchmailrc contains the following: defaults protocol POP3 port 110 poll epsom.jsp username myusername password hehehe! where epsom.jsp is the IRIX server which delivers normally the mail... Using POP3 on netscape is working fine (under win95, cause I haven't installed xf86 yet...). On remote, I'm using slirp to emulate PPP, so I've included a POP3 emulator too, which is called slirp.popper (I don't know this software, but it works...), at port 110. As I said I was working under win95 and netscape... Anything could help! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message