Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:19:17 +0400 From: Igor Roboul <igor@raduga.dyndns.org> To: david@SkytrackerCanada.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchmail problem with a POP3 account Message-ID: <20000821221917.A24656@linux.rainbow> 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 References: <39A07EEF.3C9DD700@www3.pacific-pages.com> <20000821075304.A9474@linux.rainbow> <39A14969.8D6C58C3@www3.pacific-pages.com>
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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
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