fetchmail multiple hostname (was laptop in different places)
I traced (I think!) down what was (actually is) my problem. The responsible is (my poor administration :-)) and fetchmai trying to forward the fetched mail to port 25 on *two* hosts: host.domainA and localhost. Of course, since I'm not on domain_A, this is a problem because no hosts is going to answer (thanks god!): so fetchmail timeout and stop to fetch the mail ... I tried with the smtphost option in the fetchmailrc, but after the list I'm giving fetchmail always add the 2 hosts ... Now the workaround is to add a dummy interface with the IP address of the host.domainA, but I'd like to instruct fetchmail to do the right thing: that is forward the mail just to localhost!! Any idea on how to do that? graziano -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fetchmail multiple hostname (was laptop in different places)
Obi wrote: I tried with the smtphost option in the fetchmailrc, but after the list I'm giving fetchmail always add the 2 hosts ... Now the workaround is to add a dummy interface with the IP address of the host.domainA, but I'd like to instruct fetchmail to do the right thing: that is forward the mail just to localhost!! Any idea on how to do that? What does the entry for your hostname in /etc/hosts point to, 127.0.0.1 or x.x.x.x? I have 127.0.0.1 defined to my the address of my machine it works fine. Stephen --- Normality is a statistical illusion. -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Laptop in different places ...
On 14 Oct, Obi wrote: The problem is that I have my mail server on the subnet A, and my normal name is the one on subnet A. When I'm on subnet B, I'd like not to change the name of the machine to whatever.B, but if I don't do that, fetchmail is not able anymore to retrieve my mail. Everything else seems fine, but the mail. Hi, this is not a very helpfull describtion of your fetchmail problems. What version of fetchmail do you run? What does fetchmail -v say? Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Laptop in different places ...
Hi all, this is dirving me nuts. I have a laptop and I'm changing subnet frequently, and my machine has two names, ops, three: - one on subnet A - one on subnet B - one when I'm connecting via phone. The problem is that I have my mail server on the subnet A, and my normal name is the one on subnet A. When I'm on subnet B, I'd like not to change the name of the machine to whatever.B, but if I don't do that, fetchmail is not able anymore to retrieve my mail. Everything else seems fine, but the mail. What can I do? I don't want all the time reconfigure my machine: I'd like just to plug in and work ... Any ideas? graziano -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
