Re: [bug-mailutils] DNS name resolution...

[Timothy Carpenter]

Thx for the suggestions.

It appears to be an issue in DNS, though nslookup now works (after a reboot)
but traceroute does not.

I am continuing my investigations (this may be an Apple OSX nix problem) and
will keep the board posted.
Thanks!
Tim

On 6/5/03 9:35 pm, "md" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Timothy:
> 
> Here is a sample program to send and receive email.
> 
> You wanted a programmatic way to do it and here it is.
> 
> This sample created by Sergey Panzyakoff.
> 
> DNS failures are usually a computer setup problem.
> 
> If you are using linux, type this at a command line prompt: nslookup
> www.google.com.
> 
> This may identify why your DNS is not working.
> 
> Hope it helps,
> 
> Mark Diener
> 
> 
> 
> Timothy Carpenter wrote:
>> 
>> 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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