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Re: fetchmail and DNS resolution



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?


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