From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 11 15:31:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06917 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 15:31:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vanessa.eliuk.org (pme34.sunshine.net [209.17.178.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06866 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 15:30:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by vanessa.eliuk.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA20732; Mon, 11 May 1998 15:33:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cagey@vanessa.eliuk.org) Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 15:33:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" Reply-To: "Kevin G. Eliuk" To: Doug White cc: beaupran , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail on remote POP3 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message