Re: fetchmail and DNS resolution
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
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