[fetchmail]Fetchmail on Linux behind MS ISA server !

[Rob MacGregor]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 07:41:17 -0800 (PST), Meraj Rasool Khattak
<mrkkhattak@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thank you for a quick reply.
> 
> my /etc/resolv.conf file
> 
> <resolv_conf>
> nameserver 192.168.0.1
> <resolv_conf>
> 
> It contains the ip address of the gateway / dns
> server. For browsing I define 192.168.0.3 or 2 in
> proxy's addresses.

It's one or the other.  Pick whichever gives you reliable DNS resolution.
 
> I asked the admin of ISA server, he told me that they
> are using Socks4 on their server.
>
> Yesterday I tried using runsocks (sock5) but I just
> couldn't understand it properly. Any guidlines or
> hints or online links for help in this ?

Check the documentation.  You should also find that runsocks will work
with a v4 proxy.
 
> The ISA admin has opened all these ports for me.
> 
> Even after going through the above I was not able to
> fetchmail (same canonical dns name).

Which means that your only problem is getting your DNS resolution
sorted, which isn't a fetchmail issue, but a linux configuration
issue.  Get your DNS resolution working, with a single DNS server, and
it'll all work fine.

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