Re: Pine

[Matthew Collins <nospam [at] janes.demon.co.uk>]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 15:46:33 -0000, "Richard" <richard [at] sheflug.co.uk>
wrote:

>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 :-(
>

You've got to get your ppp connection working correctly first. Connect
with whatever command you use to connect, then type

ping mail.zetnet.co.uk

or

ping www.linux.com

or

ping www.janes.demon.co.uk

if they give the "no route to host" message then your connection is
not working correctly. Fix that first. I don't know about isdn under
linux, but with a dial up connection I would put defaultroute in my
pppoptions file. This changes with every distribution though.

1st rule of getting your mail connection sorted. Check that your dial
up connection works first.
-- 
Matthew Collins
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