I think you hit the nail on the head (hostname/dhcp).
Try delivering your fetchmail to localhost (127.0.0.1 - check
/etc/hosts) and see what difference that makes for you.
Cheers,
Craige.
Alex S wrote:
>
> hi sent this to LUV with no responce...
>
> firstly is this what i am looking for ie a prog to take mail from pop serves
> and put it on my local spool..
>
> i have never used fetchmail before so naturally i started with the conf prog
> (well done mandrake for newbie stuff)
>
> i get the err below any ideas?
>
> what could this be i am thinking of mabey i am
> missing a network setting. It is a little hard to set up some things such as my
> hosts file as i am behind a dhcp server therfore i keep changing my ip: could
> this be the problem..
> thanks
> alex
>
> [root@vila /etc]# fetchmailconf
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "/usr/bin/fetchmailconf", line 1819, in ?
> hostname = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[0]
> socket.error: host not found
> [root@vila /etc]#
>
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