Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 22:16:30 -0600 From: Tom Jackson <tom@peeper.jackson.org> To: Burton Sampley <burton@bsampley.vip.best.com> Cc: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com>, Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fetchmail nolonger working Message-ID: <19970326221630.30713@peeper.jackson.org> References: <199703261727.KAA23598@xmission.xmission.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970326103157.163A-100000@bsampley.vip.best.com>
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On Wed, Mar 26, 1997 at 10:39:05AM -0800, Burton Sampley wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC wrote: > > > Sounds like Burton is not adding a default address when the PPP link > > comes up. If you're using a single PPP link as your connection to > > the net, you need to turn off routed and modify your PPP configuration > > to add a default router through the PPP connection whenever it comes > > up. Search the mail archives for help with this; it was discussed to > > death in Jan and Feb of this year. > > FWIW, I still consider myself a newbie, but when Fetchmail was not working > I could still telnet to both servers and 'surf' the web (using lynx, I'm > still waiting for UPS to find my house to deliver Xinside). From my > limited understanding, if a route to the outside world didn't exist, then > why would everything else work, but not Fetchmail under the same > conditions? Oh, BTW, I'm using 3.0-current (last CVSUPed date is > 97.02.10.00.00.00) > I'm running 3.0-current and for the life of me can't get fetchmail to work. What I'm trying is fetchmail->sendmail->procmail. I'm using ppp w/dynamic addr and beginning to think this will never work. Routed sure didn't work and the handbook is dead wrong about setting up /etc/hosts when using dynamic addr ppp links. Does anybody have a clue? -- Tom Jackson I'm ProChoice->FreeBSD toj@gorilla.net http://www.freebsd.org tjackson@tulsix.utulsa.edu "Out in the Ozone Again"
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