Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:05:44 -0400 From: David Banning <david@www3.pacific-pages.com> To: igorr@crosswinds.net Cc: david@SkytrackerCanada.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchmail problem with a POP3 account Message-ID: <39A296C8.3AF0A451@www3.pacific-pages.com> References: <39A07EEF.3C9DD700@www3.pacific-pages.com> <20000821075304.A9474@linux.rainbow> <39A14969.8D6C58C3@www3.pacific-pages.com> <20000821221917.A24656@linux.rainbow>
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Igor - you are right - once I got your and Crist's mail I immediately put sendmail to work from rc.conf. It works fine now - thanks - my the way - your english is better than most of us - cheers - Igor Roboul wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:23:21AM -0400, David Banning wrote: > > My ppp service is dial-up with dynamic IP address - as I understand it, > > I can't use sendmail for receiving with dynamic IP's. > > But I do use sendmail for sending. Not as a daemon, but run it > > with each send > AFAIK, fetchmail _needs_ local SMTP server. So you need run sendmail for your > local mail to work. Netscape can grab mail because it uses it's own > incoming mailbox, and so does not need local SMTP. > Only one thing I can't understand is why you can get mail from other POP > servers? How do you invoke fetchmail? > Sorry for my English > > -- > Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga" > http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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