Hi Mark (and anyone else who might be entertained by/curious about this saga)! Today I did a complete re-install of Mandrake 8.0 and the picture below represents my current state. I will yet try again on the morrow! I recently got a message from Postfix (YEAH!) from the system. So I get internal mail now. First, here is my .fetchmailrc file: ===== SNIP ===== set postmaster "WeAreUs" set bouncemail set no spambounce set properties "" poll home.com proto POP3 via eth0 user 'WCBaker' there with password 'xxxxxxx' is WeAreUs here ===== SNIP ===== Issuing fetchmail with -v flag: message that comes back is: "fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of home.com" Issuing from the console: "fetchmail mail.home.com" message that comes back is: "fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of mail.home.com" Issuing from the console: "fetchmail home.com" message that comes back is: "fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of home.com" For all the attempts above, I watched both the status lights on the ethernet card attached to the cable modem and also the desktop Network Monitoring tool, and fetchmail does appear to be doing the DNS query (well, it is certainly doing something on the net but I have no certainty about what it is doing). Neither my host name nor my domain name on the Linux box are home.com (which I figure would really shoot me in the foot, or even higher up). I did call myself "WarrenB.com", if that is ok?? It does appear that "there's something scwewy going on awound here!" Those wascawy winux pwobwems. . . Thanks to all for tolerating this continuing (seemingly forever) thread. . . Cheers! -wowen (that's warren if you are not a bugs bunny fan) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] fetchmail & pine not receiving (still) > WC, try typing the fetchmail command and use the "-v" flag and post the > results of the attempt. It sounds as though you're not telling fetchmail > the correct information, or theres something scwewy going on awound here! > > -- > daRcmaTTeR > =/\=??? > |%C++
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