Okay, I've been kicking at this problem all day, with seemingly no luck. What I want to do: I have a POP3 account, [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Hurricane Electric's webserver, that I want to check from my Redhat 6.1 box at home (aka trinity). I want to be able to run local mail clients (pine, maybe Evolution when it gets released), receiving and sending mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] My net connection is through an IP-masquerading firewall box to a cable modem. What I've done so far: -configured fetchmail (I think) properly to check the POP3 box, but it won't connect. It's supposed to be logging into maple.he.net as localjoe.org/srl. Here's what I get in my /var/log/maillog: Apr 15 14:40:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: starting fetchmail 5.1.0 daemon Apr 15 14:40:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: 5.1.0 querying maple.he.net (protocol APOP) at Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:40:33 -0400 (EDT) Apr 15 14:45:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: timeout after 300 seconds waiting to connect to server maple.he.net. Apr 15 14:45:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: client/server synchronization error while fetching from maple.he.net Apr 15 14:45:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: Query status=7 Apr 15 14:45:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: fetchmail: sleeping at Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:45:33 -0400 (EDT) So what am I doing wrong? I've looked at all the fetchmail help I can find. I read some docs somewhere that implied I needed a local MTA running, so fetchmail could deliver mail to my local account. I decided to kill off sendmail and install qmail, which I've been meaning to do for a while, I'm having arcane troubles with that also--- something about it not wanting to alias mail aimed at [EMAIL PROTECTED] to srl@trinity. Do I need a local MTA, and if so where should I look for info on configuring qmail to do what I need? TIA, srl ---- Shane Renee Landrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
