On 01 Apr 2009, Mike McClain wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:38:40PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 01:29:31PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > > I lost a hard drive and am attempting to restore it. > > > In a new bare installation of Sarge I can browse the web > > > with no problems. I can fetch my mail with this entry in > > > ~/.fetchmailrc: > > > poll "66.63.128.171" protocol pop3 > > > user "mike.junk" with pass "xxxxxx" is "mike" here > > > forcecr smtpaddress localhost fetchall > > > but with this entry: > > > poll pop3.nethere.net protocol pop3 > > > user "mike.junk" with pass "xxxxxx" is "mike" here > > > forcecr smtpaddress localhost fetchall > > > I get this error and no mail: > > > POP3 connection to pop3.nethere.net failed: temporary name server error. > > > yet the identical entry in Etch's .fetchmailrc works and this entry > > > used to work in Sarge. > > > > > > root@/deb31c:~/mike> cat /etc/resolv.conf > > > # /deb31/etc/resolv.conf for NetHere > > > domain nethere.com > > > nameserver 66.63.128.34 > > > nameserver 66.63.128.50 > > > > nethere.net or nethere.com ?? > > > > .com is the ISP, .net is their mail server. > Other thoughts? >
Probably not an answer to the OP, but when I was having trouble with fetchmail a year ago I changed to getmail and the problems went away immediately. It's easier to configure and more reliable. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
