Re: fetchmail??

[Marco Shaw <marco nbnet nb ca>]

> 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.

Try 'telnet pop01.ny.us.ibm.net 110' to see if you can get to it properly.
Now, as far as I understand things, sendmail must also be running and
configured properly so that fetchmail sends the mail to you properly.  Do
you know if you have sendmail configured?

Marco