Howdy,
General question when specifing the interface
option which forces fetchmail only to work when a
particular interface and IP are present, is it still
meant to try and dns resolve the name of the mail
server if the required interface is present ?
As I am getting the following error after the link
goes down.
fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of mail.coogans.com.au
poll mailserver.com via client.com localdomains client.com protocol POP3
interface ppp0/1.1.1.1 user user pass password to * here
It works perfectly while the link is up ... and I have
tested it by bring up the link with a different IP.
But it seems to still try and resolve the mail server's
name.
Just checking to see if this is normal.
Following is the output of fetchmail --version & uname -a
debian:~# fetchmail --version
This is fetchmail release 5.3.3+NTLM+SDPS+NLS
Linux debian 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
Taking options from command line and /root/.fetchmailrc
Idfile is /root/.fetchids
Progress messages will be logged via syslog
Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to postmaster.
Options for retrieving from user(_at_)mailserver(_dot_)com:
Mail will be retrieved via client.com
True name of server is client.com.
Protocol is POP3.
Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
Default mailbox selected.
Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
Fetched messages will not be kept on the server (--keep off).
Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush off).
Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
Carriage-return stripping is disabled (stripcr off).
Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits off).
MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
Idle after poll is disabled (idle off).
Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: localhost (default)
Recognized listener spam block responses are: 571 550 501 554
Multi-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
DNS lookup for multidrop addresses is enabled.
Server aliases will be compared with multidrop addresses by name.
Envelope header is assumed to be: Received
Local domains: client.com
Connection must be through interface ppp0/1.1.1.1.
No UIDs saved from this host.
debian:~# uname -a
Linux debian 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
Thanx in advance for any replies
Tom Bell