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From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@night.xinside.com>
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To: hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: odd problem with 2.2-Oct. SNAP + POP3 // fetchmail...
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Hello All,

Please respond to both patrick@xinside.com and pgiag@earthlink.net if
possible, in addition to the list if you wish...

I am simply having the darndest time figuring out what is going on
between my ISP and my Dell XPi Notebook running 2.2-961014-SNAP.  I am
using the iijppp (tun0 driver) package to connect to my ISP.
Everything connects fine, I can surf the WWW no problem.

In trying to get my email though I see the following behavior:

-- I connect via POP3 using either Netscape 3.01 Gold or using the
fetchmail client (latest version).

-- connection is made, password accepted.  Either client gets the
information about how many messages there are, and the size of the
first message.

-- then, nothing; absolutely nothing.  I can leave it alone as long as
I want, but no POP mail is downloaded. No modem lights blink, no data
seems to be transmitted.

-- I have an ancient Mac (that I of course will not be taking on the
road with me as travel back East this Christmas).  It is able to
download just fine.

Ideas?

Merry Christmas!

--Patrick