Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 16:35:26 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: fetchmail on remote POP3 Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980512163358.19772A-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980512102040.2985F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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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
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