not to seem to dense... but for sure you only have 1 network card in this computer? On Wednesday 19 September 2001 02:20, you wrote: > 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++ ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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