RE: Pine

["French, Alastair" <nospam [at] racalinst.co.uk>]

Try using the IP address of the mail server, this worked fine for me, and I
seem to remember seeing in the FAQ or README that you have to use the IP
address. It's a bit of a pain if your IP has a habit of moving their servers
IP and prefers you to use the name instead.

You may also need a localdomain (I think check the docs) statement that
points to you local domain i.e zetnet.co.uk. Otherwise it thinks that the
only local is what your machines domain is set to.

If you want me to mail a working fetchmailrc to you shout.

Alastair

PS I'm using qmail and fetchmail to handle all incoming and outgoing mail,
whether via a local  MUA or via windows. The only problem I really had was
getting the qmail pop3 demon to work properly.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Richard [SMTP:richard [at] sheflug.co.uk]
> Sent:	08 February 2000 15:47
> To:	Sheffield Linux User's Group
> Subject:	Re: Pine
> 
> Hello
> 
> > 1./ Setup sendmail to talk to your ISP's SMTP server.
> > 2./ Setup procmail. This should be as simple as installing it.
> > 3./ Setup fetchmail to talk to your pop3 server.
> > 4./ Setup whatever MUA you want. (Pine, elm, mutt etc etc).
> 
> I've had a look at a few man pages as well as "Linux in a Nutshell" 
> and "Running Linux" from O'Reilly.  The general idea for dialup is 
> that I set up fetchmail and sendmail. I've tried the recommended 
> approach to setting up fetchmail.  They say that you should connect 
> and then manually type in some commands into a terminal window to 
> check that mail is downloading properly.  I've tried.....
> 
> isdnctrl dial ippp0 (connects)
> fetchmail --protocol POP3  --username  "richard"  "domain.co.uk"
> it said "enter password for r.ibbotson [at] zetnet.co.uk".  Which I did.
> and it came back with.....
> fetchmail:  POP3 connection to zetnet.co.uk failed: No route to host.
> fetchmail:  Query status=2
> 
> So, whatever query status 2 means then that's why it won't download.
> 
> 	The man pages recommend that I do this before configuring fetchmail 
> under /.fetchmail.rc.  No idea where to go from here :-(
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Richard
> Sheffield UK
> 
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