[techtalk] qmail, fetchmail, and POP3

[srl]

Okay, I've been kicking at this problem all day, with seemingly no luck.

What I want to do:  

I have a POP3 account, srl at localjoe.org, on Hurricane Electric's
webserver, that I want to check from my Redhat 6.1 box at home (aka
trinity). I want to be able to run local mail clients (pine, maybe
Evolution when it gets released), receiving and sending mail as
srl at localjoe.org. My net connection is through an IP-masquerading firewall
box to a cable modem.   

What I've done so far:

-configured fetchmail (I think) properly to check the POP3 box, but it
won't connect. It's supposed to be logging into maple.he.net as
localjoe.org/srl. Here's what I get in my /var/log/maillog:

Apr 15 14:40:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: starting fetchmail 5.1.0 daemon  
Apr 15 14:40:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: 5.1.0 querying maple.he.net
(protocol APOP) at Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:40:33 -0400 (EDT) 
Apr 15 14:45:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: timeout after 300 seconds waiting
to connect to server maple.he.net. 
Apr 15 14:45:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: client/server synchronization
error while fetching from maple.he.net 
Apr 15 14:45:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: Query status=7 
Apr 15 14:45:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: fetchmail: sleeping at Sat, 15 Apr
2000 14:45:33 -0400 (EDT) 


So what am I doing wrong? I've looked at all the fetchmail help I can
find. 

I read some docs somewhere that implied I needed a local MTA running, so
fetchmail could deliver mail to my local account. I decided to kill off
sendmail and install qmail, which I've been meaning to do for a while, I'm
having arcane troubles with that also--- something about it not wanting to
alias mail aimed at srl at localjoe.org to srl at trinity. Do I need a local
MTA, and if so where should I look for info on configuring qmail to do
what I need?


TIA,
srl
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Shane Renee Landrum
slandrum at cs.smith.edu