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kazzmir
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Joined: 11 Jan 2004
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 Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 2:46 pm Post subject: fetchmailconf not working |
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im trying to get fetchmail set up with fetchmailconf. Running fetchmailconf produces this output:
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kazzmir ~ $ fetchmailconf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/fetchmailconf", line 2008, in ?
hostname = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[0]
socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
kazzmir ~ $
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the same thing is printed if I run as root. I have a hostname set up, i think..
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kazzmir ~ $ hostname
welcome.tohell
kazzmir ~ $
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any idea why I get that error and/or how to fix it? |
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hkroger
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 3:21 pm Post subject: Re: fetchmailconf not working |
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| kazzmir wrote: |
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kazzmir ~ $ fetchmailconf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/fetchmailconf", line 2008, in ?
hostname = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[0]
socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
kazzmir ~ $
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any idea why I get that error and/or how to fix it? |
Are you sure that the email server address is correct? That call doesn't have necessarily anything to do with your own hostname but server's. |
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kazzmir
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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| what email server? I thought fetchmailconf was supposed to configure this stuff for me. I mean not that i dont know what email server I am trying to fetch the mail from, but i thought fetchmailconf was a Tk gui program in which I type in all the options and it generates a ~/.fetchmailrc file for me. |
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