Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 15:33:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: beaupran <root@umontreal.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail on remote POP3 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980511152828.19264A-100000@vanessa.eliuk.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980511105546.1090J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, 11 May 1998, Doug White wrote: => On Mon, 11 May 1998, beaupran wrote: => => > Hi! => > => > 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 had the ame error after upgrading to 2.2.6, make sure you have: smtphost localhost in your .fetchmailrc . Kevin G. Eliuk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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