I'm running the debian [unstable] fetchmail-ssl 5.7.7-2 package. I
believe there is a flaw in the DNS code. A the route from my house
to the DNS servers for one of the mail server at my work went down
this morning. For this reason the DNS lookup on that mailserver
failed. Unfortunately fetchmail didn't download mail from the other
mail servers in my .fetchmailrc file. If I removed the reference to
the mailserver at my work fetchmail downloaded the mail fine. For
the purpose of this e-mail usernames and passwords have been
replaced with *s and the domain of my work has been changed to
mywork.com
The output from 'fetchmail -V -v' is
This is fetchmail release 5.7.7+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+NLS
Linux violet 2.4.2-ac20 #3 Wed Mar 14 18:04:32 PST 2001 i686 unknown
fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of mail.amavi.com
Exit 11
Exit 11 is outputed by my shell to tell me that fetchmail ended with
the exit code 11.
here is my fetchmailrc file
# Configuration created Tue Mar 20 18:22:15 2001 by fetchmailconf
set postmaster "chanlon"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
set logfile ~/log/fetchmail
poll victoria.tc.ca with proto POP3
user '*****' there with password '***' is chanlon here options fetchall
warnings 3600
antispam 571 550 501 554
poll mail.mywork.com with proto IMAP port 993
user '*****' there with password '***' is chanlon here options keep
warnings 3600 ssl
antispam 571 550 501 554
poll mail.gvcl1.bc.wave.home.com with proto POP3
user '*****' there with password '***' is chanlon here options fetchall
warnings 3600
antispam 571 550 501 554
As I didn't connect to any servers there were no POP or IMAP server
greeting lines
The MDA I'm forwarding to is exim 3.2.2-3
I almost always run fetchmail with the -v switch.
Chris
P.S. I recieve the exact same results if I set the mailserver to
POP3 on port 995 (pop3 with ssl).