'Lo -
I changed the HOSTNAME entry in '/etc/sysconfig/network' of my creaking
RH4.2 setup (due to be shot in the head "Real Soon Now"), and low and
behold it prevented 'fetchmail' from popping my ISP's mail server. Changed
it back and I'm back to popping mail. AFAIK, my HOSTNAME is of no
consequence to the ISP. Any ideas what is going on here, or how to find
out what wall 'fetchmail' is hitting? Other parts of the mail transfer
path were presumably working, since the mail was never removed from the
ISP's spool.
The change also killed some X apps, since I had hard-coded the old
HOSTNAME into the DISPLAY definition in my '.bashrc'.
Yes, pretty dumb. I expect I still have some similar conflict in the
'fetchmail' setup; I _think_ I checked the obvious in ~/.fetchmailrc, but
reminders to "check the obvious" are still welcome.
TIA -
John Mills, Sr. Software Engineer
TGA Technologies, Inc.
100 Pinnacle Way, Suite 140
Norcross, GA 30071-3633
e-mail: ">jmills@tga.com
Phone: 770-441-2100 ext.124 (voice)
770-449-7740 (FAX)
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