From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 21 11:19:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from srcso.globis.ru (globis.ru [212.248.80.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1E2937B422 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:19:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from raduga.dyndns.org (raduga.sochi.net [212.248.82.76]) by srcso.globis.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA02841; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:34:19 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from igor@raduga.dyndns.org) Received: (from igor@localhost) by raduga.dyndns.org (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e7LIJIQ24689; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:19:18 +0400 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:19:17 +0400 From: Igor Roboul To: david@SkytrackerCanada.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchmail problem with a POP3 account Message-ID: <20000821221917.A24656@linux.rainbow> Reply-To: igorr@crosswinds.net Mail-Followup-To: david@SkytrackerCanada.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <39A07EEF.3C9DD700@www3.pacific-pages.com> <20000821075304.A9474@linux.rainbow> <39A14969.8D6C58C3@www3.pacific-pages.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <39A14969.8D6C58C3@www3.pacific-pages.com>; from david@www3.pacific-pages.com on Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:23:21AM -0400 X-Operating-System: Linux linux.rainbow 2.2.14-plus-SMP X-Best-Window-Manager: Window Maker (www.windowmaker.org) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:23:21AM -0400, David Banning wrote: > My ppp service is dial-up with dynamic IP address - as I understand it, > I can't use sendmail for receiving with dynamic IP's. > But I do use sendmail for sending. Not as a daemon, but run it > with each send AFAIK, fetchmail _needs_ local SMTP server. So you need run sendmail for your local mail to work. Netscape can grab mail because it uses it's own incoming mailbox, and so does not need local SMTP. Only one thing I can't understand is why you can get mail from other POP servers? How do you invoke fetchmail? Sorry for my English -- Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga" http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message