About two weeks ago, I asked the question if anyone was able to successfully
use diald and email. The responses from most people were yes. Unfortunately,
I am still unable to make things work.
My Problem:
I am running a small LAN (one machine with NT4.0 and a LINUX box), obviously
LINUX has diald installed. Well I can successfully browse the internet from
my NT box through the LINUX machine (using Apache's Proxy & Diald....For
some reason FTP & IRC don't work, but that is the least of my problems right
now.) When I try to sample my POP3 account at my ISP (NT -> LINUX/Diald ->
ISP) it never works. I always get an error stating something like "the TCP
connection unexpectedly terminated".
My Assumptions:
In my diald.conf file, I have a line stating "window 2048" which I believe
sets up the maximum allowable packets to be transmitted through eth0
(probably not though :) Could this be preventing my NT machine from being
able to constant connection to my ISP? (i.e. Engaging a stop light in the
connection <- sorry for the metaphor, but it seemed like the best way to
describe it.)
Conclusion:
I have tried everything I know to remedy this situation, but have had little
success. Someone mentioned using "fetchmail" to download and retrieve mail,
well I tried this and it doesn't seem to work either. Fetchmail (using the
test feature) will initiate diald into a connection and check my email
properly (I think.) When running on it's own it never seems to download mail
and forward it to the proper local mail boxes. Aaargh!
If someone could please shed some light on this situation, it would be
greatly appreciated.
Note: this isn't an email client problem for I have tried Outlook98,
Netscape Mail, Pegasus and Eudora Pro.
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Kevin Hillabolt
Technical Service
Countec Recycling Systems
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