fetchmail trouble was potato installation bug
It took a couple of weeks and gallons of coffee to fix a bug that made
it impossible to fetch my mail with fetchmail; the whole thing finally
turned out to be a potato installation bug.
I installed via base2_2.tgz, creation date Mar 18 on my HDD, which I
downloaded from www.them.org. I have no permanent
network connection and chose the PPP installation.
Fetchmail, whose configuration was definitely ok, logged in, listed
the messages, rewrote some headers and them stopped (timed out). I
reinstalled it a few times, the same thing; nobody knew why.
Finally I figured out it wasn't fetchmail's fault; it wasn't able to
connect to localhost. The potato installer hadn't installed
/etc/init.d/network (or started /etc/init.d/networking, don't know
about that). I made /etc/init.d/network as follows (executable):
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
et voila, fetchmail works. What gave me the idea was that I couldn't
ping localhost.
If somebody knows what to do to make this executed automatically at startup,
please give me a hint. Dist maintainers, please verify if this issue
still exists.
Thanks for your time,
Andre
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Andre Berger <andre.berger@topmail.de> from Bonn, Germany
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