Ok, fitst I checked and made sure I do have a dynamic isp. I do. Secondly, I now have got it to recognize my fqdn as maranatha.chartermi.net and my dnsdomainname as chartermi.net. However, if I put localhost in between the "127.0.0.1 and the "maranatha.chartermi.net" I will start getting "localhost" as the fqdn. Also, as soon as I put localhost anywhere in the/etc/hosts, fetchmail hangs right after looking at the first message; no delivery and no explanation even on verbose. I also tried putting my internet address in the /etc/hosts file; though it's dynamic it has remained constant. When I did this and ran fetchmail, I got something about "neighbor table overflow". When I type "ifconfig" my loopback interface doesn't show; if I type "ifconfig lo" it shows but not as running. Only if I mannually bring it up does it appear to be up.
I also did notice when using pump "maybe dhcpcd would tell me this with the proper options; I don't know) that my isp's hostname is showing up as mad.chartermi.net (I assume mad for Madison) but I wasn't told to use the "mad" anywhere. While I do of course have an email address with my isp, they apparently don't use a hostname to identify me, so I don't have a hostname per se with them. Those are all the relevant facts I can think of at the moment.
