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Date:      Mon, 11 May 1998 15:33:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        beaupran <root@umontreal.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fetchmail on remote POP3
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980511152828.19264A-100000@vanessa.eliuk.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980511105546.1090J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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On Mon, 11 May 1998, Doug White wrote:

=> On Mon, 11 May 1998, beaupran wrote:
=> 
=> > 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)
=> 
=> Your computer's name doesn't exist in the DNS.  Try adding it to
=> /etc/hosts.

I had the ame error after upgrading to 2.2.6, make sure you have:

smtphost localhost

in your .fetchmailrc .

Kevin G. Eliuk


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