Re: fetchmail & multiple hostname (was laptop in different places)

1997-10-16 Thread Stephen Zander
Obi wrote: > I tried with the smtphost option in the fetchmailrc, but after the list I'm > giving fetchmail always add the 2 hosts ... Now the workaround is to add a > dummy interface with the IP address of the host.domainA, but I'd like to > instruct fetchmail to do the right thing: that is for

fetchmail & multiple hostname (was laptop in different places)

1997-10-16 Thread Obi
I traced (I think!) down what was (actually is) my problem. The responsible is (my poor administration :-)) and fetchmai trying to forward the fetched mail to port 25 on *two* hosts: host.domainA and localhost. Of course, since I'm not on domain_A, this is a problem because no hosts is going to

Re: Laptop in different places ...

1997-10-15 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 14 Oct, Obi wrote: > > The problem is that I have my mail server on the subnet A, and my "normal" > name is the one on subnet A. When I'm on subnet B, I'd like not to change > the name of the machine to whatever.B, but if I don't do that, fetchmail > is not able anymore to retrieve my mail. Eve

Laptop in different places ...

1997-10-14 Thread Obi
Hi all, this is dirving me nuts. I have a laptop and I'm changing subnet frequently, and my machine has two names, ops, three: - one on subnet A - one on subnet B - one when I'm connecting via phone. The problem is that I have my mail server on the subnet A, and my "norma