[lug] fetchmailconf problem

dan radom dradom at redback.com
Tue Aug 21 17:36:40 MDT 2001


looks like it can't get your hostname.  try adding the entry to /etc/hosts.

* Jason Davis (jd_480 at hotmail.com) wrote:
> im new to linux. when i try to set up fetchmail...by using fetchmail conf i 
> always get the error:
> 
> file /usr/bin/fetchmailconf , line 1841 in?
> hostname=socket.gethostbyaddr (socket.gethostname())[o]
> socket.error: host not found



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