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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index a4bd5242..185fa57a 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/12/17 19:17:54 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/12/29 00:11:13 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ mail it to fetchmail's maintainer, Eric S. Raymond, at <a href="#G9">G9. Is any special configuration needed to use a dynamic IP address?</a><br> <a href="#G10">G10. Is any special configuration needed to use firewalls?</a><br> +<a href="#G11">G11. Is any special configuration needed to <em>send</em> mail?</a><br> <h1>Build-time problems:</h1> @@ -527,6 +528,24 @@ will be happier.''<P> I couldn't have put it better myself, and ain't going to try now.<P> <hr> +<h2><a name="G11">G11. Is any special configuration needed to <em>send</em> mail?</a></h2> + +A user asks: but how do we send mail out to the POP3 server? Do I need +to implement another tool or will fetchmail do this too?<p> + +Fetchmail only handles the receiving side. The sendmail or other +preinstalled MTA on your client machine will handle sending mail +automatically; it will ship mail that is submitted while the +connection is active, and put mail that is submitted while +the connection is inactive into the outgoing queue.<P> + +Normally, sendmail is also run periodically (every 15 minutes on most +Linux systems) in a mode that tries to ship all the mail in the +outgoing queue. If you have set up something like pppd to +automatically dial out when your kernel is called to open a TCP/IP +connection, this will ensure that the mail gets out.<P> + +<hr> <h2><a name="B2">B2. I get link failures when I try to build fetchmail.</a></h2> If you get errors resembling these<P> @@ -1561,6 +1580,12 @@ sure it says something like again, in order to make sure <code>/etc/hosts</code> is seen first.<P> +If you have a hostname set for your machine, and this hostname does +not appear in /etc/hosts, you will be able to telnet to port 25 and +even send a mail with rcpt to: user@host-not-in-/etc/hosts, but +fetchmail can't seem to get in touch with sendmail, no matter what you +set smtpaddress to.<p> + We had another report from a Linux user of fetchmail 2.1 who solved his SMTP connection problem by removing the reference to -lresolv from his link line and relinking. Apparently in some older Linux distributions the @@ -2215,7 +2240,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.<P> <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/12/17 19:17:54 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/12/29 00:11:13 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |