From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 10 19:43:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85AA337B401 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:43:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5B2hBNg033504; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:43:11 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5B2hBT0033503; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:43:11 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:43:11 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: "Wilkinson,Alex" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail && fetchmail [advice] Message-ID: <20020611144311.B33421@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020611105659.L21224-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i 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 +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "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