From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 25 17:00:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA28055 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 17:00:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.vlsi.fi (3rdxr0og9TvQA9qa/Jd5+MGyrJofcSAy@mail.vlsi.fi [195.74.10.147]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA28044 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 17:00:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by mail.vlsi.fi (8.7.6/8.7.3) id DAA29984; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 03:00:36 +0200 (EET) Received: from vlsi1.vlsi.fi(193.64.2.2) by mail.vlsi.fi via smap (V1.3) id sma029982; Wed Mar 26 03:00:11 1997 Received: from layout.vlsi.fi by vlsi1.vlsi.fi with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA161648006; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 03:00:07 +0200 Received: by layout.vlsi.fi (1.37.109.15/16.2) id AA257888005; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 03:00:05 +0200 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 03:00:05 +0200 Message-Id: <199703260100.AA257888005@layout.vlsi.fi> From: Ville Eerola To: Burton Sampley Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fetchmail nolonger working In-Reply-To: References: <199703252324.AA257592289@layout.vlsi.fi> X-Mailer: VM Version 5.93 (beta) under GNU Emacs 19.29.6 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Burton Sampley writes: > Thanks for the help. Yes I do have senmail running. I just solved this > problem. I looked in the /etc/sysconfig file and noticed that routed was > NOT running. I changed the line from router="NO" to router=routed and > rebooted the machine. Surpirse, now fetchmail works. > > I keep seeing many, many postings on both -current and -questions that > routed _IS NOT NEEDED_ for anything. This truely is a case the proves > otherwise. The only thing that I changed was the router line in > sysconfig and now fetchmail works. (I know I'll probably get flamed for > this, but Oh, well) Uh... I use fetchmail, and certainly do not need to use routed. However, you may well have been suffering from some other networking problem. For example, the default sendmail configuration needs to have DNS working. I use on-demand ISDN line to connect from home to the net, and in the booting phase adding some manual routes the route command does name lookups and initiates the ISDN dialing. Sometimes if I'm in hurry, and know that I don't need the net during that session, I cancel that by pressing CTRL-C during the startup, and the net is left in bad state. This can cause sendmail not to start up properly, and could later cause fetchmail to fail. Anyways, if your problem is solved, everything is fine... Regards, Ville -- Ville.Eerola@vlsi.fi VLSI Solution Oy Tel:+358 3 3165579 Hermiankatu 6-8 C Fax:+358 3 3165220 FIN-33720 Tampere, Finland