Re: fetchmail
On 18 Oct 2000, Jim Foltz wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 01:40:20PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> >
> > I still get problems intermittently with fetchmail pausing for a long
> > time while getting the first messsage. I thought I'd fixed it by editing
> > /etc/hosts but it still happens sometimes. At other times it works
> > perfectly.
> >
> > Anthing else worth checking?
>
> I don't know, but I get the same behaviour EVERY time I use fetchmail
> and FTP. It's annoying.
>
> --
> jfoltz1@neo.rr.com
>
I think I *may* have fixed it by changing the order of entries in
/etc/hosts. I had 127.0.0.1 local host first and other entries later;
now I have:
127.0.0.1 acampbell.cix.co.uk
127.0.0.1 ac
127.0.0.1 localhost
This seems to be givin fast connections with fetchmail but it may be too
soon to talk.
Anthony
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