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[bug-mailutils] DNS name resolution...


From: Timothy Carpenter
Subject: [bug-mailutils] DNS name resolution...
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 22:38:24 +0100
User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418

Hi,

Now I am finally able to move on to feeling my way with mailutils I have the
usual dumb questions!

As a precursor to coding I have tried the simplest thing - sfrom - to look
at an email account and get something back.

I have entered and got the following:

timcarpenter% setenv MAIL=pop://address@hidden
timcarpenter% ./sfrom
mailbox_open: DNS name resolution failed

So I am missing something pretty basic, but I am unable to find out where to
go next (my email f/e seems happy enough to work with that URL). Frankly, I
am used to such f/e email apps and not in the slightest used to using UNIX
directly for email - so apologies for such a basic question. I want to avoid
turning my machine into an email server, if possible.

BTW- my target is to programmatically get new mail alerts in realtime or at
worst 1sec interval polling from 2 or more email addresses to separate
applications.

Thanks in advance
Tim





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