From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 10 18:42:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from digger1.defence.gov.au (digger1.defence.gov.au [203.5.217.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A825137B409 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 18:42:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au (dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.150]) by digger1.defence.gov.au (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g5B1f9S05864 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:11:09 +0930 (CST) Received: from muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (unverified) by dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.1.5) with ESMTP id for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:12:21 +0930 Received: from salex001.dsto.defence.gov.au (salex001.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.9]) by muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/8.9.3.LMD.990513) with ESMTP id LAA02549 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:06:18 +0930 (CST) Received: from squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au ([131.185.75.211]) by salex001.dsto.defence.gov.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id MLWBFVWR; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:06:31 +0930 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:57:26 +0930 (CST) From: "Wilkinson,Alex" X-X-Sender: wilkinsa@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au Reply-To: Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: sendmail && fetchmail [advice] Message-ID: <20020611105659.L21224-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Howdy, Can I have people's advice here. I have a standalone workstation that dials up to Internode thus gets a dynamic ip. I want to use fetchmail to retrieve my mail from Internode's POP3 server and then to deliver mail to my local sendmail server. Then I can use Mutt or pine to read it. The problem. 1. I am not 'currently' wanting to run a mail server. 2. I have not got a domain name 3. I do not have a static IP address. When the system boots sendmail times out trying to resolve my host name ( at least that's what I think). At the moment I am using a private ip ie 10.0.0.2. With all of the above taken into account, what advice as would people give to make sendmail and fetchmail work together. OR alternative ways to do this ? Thanks - Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message