Hi y'all I am a relative newbie to Linux (<12 months playing on and off, mainly with Mandrake) After getting sick & tired of BSOD in XP, I've bitten the bullet and purchased SuSE 8.0 Pro. After a successful install and with just 5 days woth of investigation, I have 2 problem areas the first of which is Internet access and Dial-on-Demand. As I understand it one should start KInternet by clicking on the small cable icon then whenever an application requires access to a remote server smpppd will dial one's ISP and start "ppp" & "fetchmail". However, for me dialling only commences when I use YOU or XPilot. Also, I wish to receive all email into "/var/spool/mail/" but nothing is arriving. Below is sample output of my manually started fetchmail. I have created aliases "postmaster:root" AND "root:suse" Connection to my ISP's POP server seems successful but no mail is received in my spool. Can anyone please advise? Please let me know if you need further information. This email address - suse@syrene.fsnet.co.uk - is my home email but I do have web access. Office hours are best served by sylvanus.currie@british-energy.com -- Syl -- "In the fullness of time all shall come to pass" # Edit carefully, see /usr/share/doc/packages/yast2-config-mail/fetchmailrc.txt # set daemon 900 ; set postmaster "postmaster" ; set no bouncemail ; set logfile /var/log/fetchmail ; poll "pop.freeserve.net" protocol AUTO : user "syrene.fsnet.co.uk" there with password "Sunavly5" to * keep ; poll "pop3.demon.co.uk" protocol AUTO : user "syrene" there with password "db4rnr" to * keep ; ~ ~ ~ linux:/home/sylvanus # fetchmail -avf /etc/fetchmailrc fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying pop.freeserve.net (protocol auto) at Wed 19 Jun 2002 22:04:46 BST fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying pop.freeserve.net (protocol IMAP) at Wed 19 Jun 2002 22:04:46 BST fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting to connect to server pop.freeserve.net. fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from pop.freeserve.net fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying pop.freeserve.net (protocol POP3) at Wed 19 Jun 2002 22:09:46 BST fetchmail: POP3< +OK POP3 server ready (cmailm2.svr.pol.co.uk) fetchmail: POP3> USER syrene.fsnet.co.uk fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3> PASS * fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3> STAT fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2 5331 fetchmail: 2 messages for syrene.fsnet.co.uk at pop.pol.net.uk (5331 octets). fetchmail: POP3> LIST fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3< 1 2736 fetchmail: POP3< 2 2595 fetchmail: POP3< . fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: reading message 1 of 2 (2736 octets) fetchmail: fetchmail: nameserver failure while looking for `alias);' during poll of pop.freeserve.net. fetchmail: nameserver failure while looking for `alias);' during poll of pop.freeserve.net. .fetchmail: not flushed fetchmail: POP3> RETR 2 fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: reading message 2 of 2 (2595 octets) fetchmail: SMTP< 220 linux.syrene.fsnet.co.uk ESMTP Postfix on SuSE Linux 8.0 (i386) fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost fetchmail: SMTP< 250-linux.syrene.fsnet.co.uk fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE 10240000 fetchmail: SMTP< 250-VRFY fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ETRN fetchmail: SMTP< 250-XVERP fetchmail: SMTP< 250 8BITMIME fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<suse-linux-e-return-106026-suse=syrene.fsnet.co.uk@suse.com> BODY=7BIT SIZE=2595 fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Ok fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<postmaster@localhost> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Ok fetchmail: SMTP> DATA fetchmail: SMTP< 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF> #**********************************.*****fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM) fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Ok: queued as DA34E69F31 fetchmail: not flushed fetchmail: POP3> QUIT fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying pop3.demon.co.uk (protocol auto) at Wed 19 Jun 2002 22:09:56 BST fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying pop3.demon.co.uk (protocol IMAP) at Wed 19 Jun 2002 22:09:56 BST fetchmail: IMAP connection to pop3.demon.co.uk failed: Connection refused fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying pop3.demon.co.uk (protocol POP3) at Wed 19 Jun 2002 22:09:56 BST fetchmail: POP3< +OK demon POP3 server ready (demon.co.uk) fetchmail: POP3> USER syrene