Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:43:11 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: "Wilkinson,Alex" <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail && fetchmail [advice] Message-ID: <20020611144311.B33421@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020611105659.L21224-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au>; from Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au on Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:57:26AM %2B0930 References: <20020611105659.L21224-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:57:26AM +0930, Wilkinson,Alex wrote:
[...]
> I want to use fetchmail to retrieve my mail from Internode's POP3 server and then to
> deliver mail to my local sendmail server. Then I can use Mutt or pine to read it.
>
> The problem.
>
> 1. I am not 'currently' wanting to run a mail server.
> 2. I have not got a domain name
> 3. I do not have a static IP address.
The fetchmail + local-sendmail is fine for this scenario.
> When the system boots sendmail times out trying to resolve my host name ( at least that's what
> I think).
>
> At the moment I am using a private ip ie 10.0.0.2.
All you have to do is to add the output of `hostname` and the IP
address into /etc/hosts and you should be fine.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by"
- Douglas Adams
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020611144311.B33421>