To follow up my own problem, isn't it funny how sending the message triggers your mind....
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote: > The strangest thing in all of this, is that I can, now at least, connect > with minicom and start pppd manually, which is fine, but I can't get my > mail with fetchmail. It seems that the remote system is querying my > machine for some reason, and my smtp port is not listening. ftp works, > nntp works, telnet (which I'm using now to write this from pine on my > providers machine) > I had munged up /etc/init.d/networks and I had played with /etc/hosts.deny after reseting these to original settings, I think, all is getting better. > Take pity on me, I've spent way too much time reading to be > objective about this anymore.... I take that back, don't pity me, feel free to throw your rotten veggies at me for cluttering up the list...with my self inflicted probs... Rich M [EMAIL PROTECTED]