From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 13:35:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19496 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 13:35:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA19456 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 13:35:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA) Received: from epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca (epsom.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.25]) by harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA01708; Tue, 12 May 1998 16:35:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from derby.jsp.umontreal.ca (derby.jsp.umontreal.ca [132.204.46.26]) by epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca via ESMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id QAA22291; Tue, 12 May 1998 16:35:27 -0400 Received: from localhost (beaupran@localhost) by derby.jsp.umontreal.ca via SMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id QAA20437; Tue, 12 May 1998 16:35:26 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: derby.jsp.umontreal.ca: beaupran owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 16:35:26 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine Reply-To: BEAUPRE Antoine To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions 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 Real sorry about theat stuff with POP3. I had the wrong POP3 address. Thanks a lot for all of you! On Tue, 12 May 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 1998, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > > > > > 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 didn't reply this to the list 'cause I find myself a little slow... Now > > its saying: > > can't connect to host [...] : connection refused. Is it that fetchmail is > > not sending my username or password or both or what? > > connection refused means that the server isn't running. Are you sure > fetchmail is trying to grab via pop to the right server? > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > +-----------------------------------+ | Free the world from businessmen | | Free yourself from your money | +-----------------------------------+ Free the web. Spidey visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message