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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: doPOP3: socket: connection refused
In-Reply-To: <33D4D433.6378@bellsouth.net> from Keith Leonard at "Jul 22, 97 10:39:31 am"
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 22:48:43 +0200 (MET DST)
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> Howdy,
> 
> I guess the subject says it all except for:

It says: There is no popserver on the specified hostmachine
willing to deliver mail to me.
So possibly you misconfigured the hostname and/or IP-address of the
computer you want to get the mail from.

The IP address of the host is either in your /etc/hosts file or
resolved by a DNServer. Check both.

Wolfgang