[Klug-general] Email fiddling

[Michael E. Rentell]

G'day all,

I wonder if I'm the oldest member of the group. Maybe this query will
prove creeping idiocy but nothing ventured nothing gained.

To while away my retirement and to avoid the frozen garden I thought I
would attempt to get email using the hostname allocated to me by
ntlworld.com (yeah I know, no php, no cgi-bin but it is fast and
reliablish).

When I switch on my desktop PC under Mandrake 10.1 the default hostname
I see on the command line is mick at pc1-folk1-3-0-cust113.ntlworld.com

That intrigued me so from my standard email setup (this one) I sent
myself an email using that address. It certainly popped off OK and
hasn't bounced but I don't know where it has gone. Possibly ntl have
directed it to the null box. It hasn't come back down the POP3 connection.

Now to the question. Does anyone know if it be possible to set up
fetchmail to find that email? I've loaded fetchmail and fetchmailconf
and set up just that hostname and user mick but when I activate it as
root I am informed that fetchmail can't find its cannonical DNS name.

Is that it? Idea dead? It was just something to keep me sane these
chilly days. I've learned to hack Linux over the past 4 years simply by
playing like this. All part of life's rich experiences.

Regards to all, stay safe on the ice.

Mike Rentell in Folkestone.