On Monday 01 January 2001 06:15 pm, you wrote:
> I use pine for email, and fetchmail to actually get the email. Strangely,
> today I hadn't gotten one single email, so I fire one off to myself as a
> test. I never get it. OK, so I figure fetchmail isn't working. I open
> Kmail to check the email, and sure enough, theres a ton of email on my
> server waiting to be downloaded and read. After dl'ing and reading said
> email, I open kpm, kill fetchmail (seemed logical) and type fetchmailconf
> in a terminal, so I can do a little troubleshooting. Well, it didn't work.
> Here is what it said:
>
> [rog@ool-18beefd7 rog]$ fetchmailconf
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "/usr/bin/fetchmailconf", line 1841, in ?
> hostname = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[0]
> socket.error: host not found
>
> Anyone ever seen anything like this before? This actually happened to me
> once before, but I had done something stupid, which I definitly didn't do
> this time...this just seemed to happen out of the blue!
>
> Anyways, I _really_ don't want to have to reinstall again, so if anyone
> can help me out, it would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> peace,
>
> Rog
> http://www.slammingrooves.com
> Registered Linux user #19071
Roger,
Have you tried to get your messages from the server by issuing fetchmail a
command to make one pass at your mail server? If not, give this a try and let
us know what your system tells you.
--
Mark
"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."
Linus Torvalds
