Re: Problems with fetchmail and ping

2002-12-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Cygwin programs, we don't really need to know/discuss that. ;-) Larry Original Message: - From: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 00:31:00 -0500 (EST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems with fetchmail and ping Sorry for the off

Re: Problems with fetchmail and ping

2002-12-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 10:04:12AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I don't think this is off-topic. Ditto. Providing useful information that helps track down a problem is never off-topic. If you know of particular firewalls that will cause problems for network utilities (even if it's

Problems with fetchmail and ping

2002-12-19 Thread David E. Bath
I had everything working well with my fetchmail setup. Then without making any changes to the cygwin files or .fetchmailrc, fetchmail started reporting: POP3 connection to .*.com failed: Connection refused no matter which server I try to access. Ping for the same address returns: PING:

Re: Problems with fetchmail and ping

2002-12-19 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Have you installed ICS or any firewall software? If so this will explain: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q316414 Elfyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- David E. Bath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had everything working well with my fetchmail setup. Then without making any changes

RE: Problems with fetchmail and ping

2002-12-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# net helpmsg 65 Network access is denied. Looks like you're having network problems of some kind. Larry Original Message: - From: David E. Bath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:57:46 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problems with fetchmail and ping I had

Re: Problems with fetchmail and ping

2002-12-19 Thread David E. Bath
It turned out to be a problem with ZoneAlarm as mentioned in the link. Funny thing, I hadn't run it since I got a router, but when I uninstalled it, it fixed the problem. Thanks, Elfyn and everyone else! Elfyn McBratney wrote: Have you installed ICS or any firewall software? If so this will

Re: Problems with fetchmail and ping

2002-12-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Sorry for the off-topic post, but I just want to mention that some firewall programs replace the standard networking DLLs with their own, thus creating problems even if they are not run. Just my 2c. Igor On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, David E. Bath wrote: It turned out to be a problem with