From 0c921a5d0cecb861601be7bedd0a549d1a36956b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 00:11:13 +0000 Subject: Added new G11 item. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2291 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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 @@
Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1998/12/17 19:17:54 $ +$Date: 1998/12/29 00:11:13 $

Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ mail it to fetchmail's maintainer, Eric S. Raymond, at G9. Is any special configuration needed to use a dynamic IP address?
G10. Is any special configuration needed to use firewalls?
+G11. Is any special configuration needed to send mail?

Build-time problems:

@@ -526,6 +527,24 @@ will be happier.''

I couldn't have put it better myself, and ain't going to try now.

+

+

G11. Is any special configuration needed to send mail?

+ +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?

+ +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.

+ +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.

+

B2. I get link failures when I try to build fetchmail.

@@ -1561,6 +1580,12 @@ sure it says something like again, in order to make sure /etc/hosts is seen first.

+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.

+ 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.

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Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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