Re: fetchmail??

[William Stearns <wstearns pobox com>]

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Good day, Bill,

On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Bill Neuman wrote:

> Once again I have more questions;
> 
> Have been setting up fetchmail to go out and pick up mail from one pop3
> server.
> When I enter fetchmail -c I get this:
> 
> fetchmail: POP3 connection to pop01.ny.us.ibm.net failed: host is unknown
> 
> Where have I ommitted something? Is this a DNS thing? When I ping
> pop01.ny.us.ibm.net, it works fine from the linux machine.

	Well, I can't be sure, but I'd bet a soda you have a Capital "O" instead of the
"zero" you need in pop_0_1.ny.us.ibm.net.  Try retyping it in ~/.fetchmailrc and see if
that works any better.
	I certainly haven't done that myself.... much... recently... OK, I do that all
t00 often! <grin>
	Cheers,
	- Bill


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