It took a couple of weeks and gallons of coffee to fix a bug that made it impossible to fetch my mail with fetchmail; the whole thing finally turned out to be a potato installation bug.
I installed via base2_2.tgz, creation date Mar 18 on my HDD, which I downloaded from www.them.org. I have no permanent network connection and chose the PPP installation. Fetchmail, whose configuration was definitely ok, logged in, listed the messages, rewrote some headers and them stopped (timed out). I reinstalled it a few times, the same thing; nobody knew why. Finally I figured out it wasn't fetchmail's fault; it wasn't able to connect to localhost. The potato installer hadn't installed /etc/init.d/network (or started /etc/init.d/networking, don't know about that). I made /etc/init.d/network as follows (executable): #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 et voila, fetchmail works. What gave me the idea was that I couldn't ping localhost. If somebody knows what to do to make this executed automatically at startup, please give me a hint. Dist maintainers, please verify if this issue still exists. Thanks for your time, Andre -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany
