Hostname resolutionThis is a discussion on Hostname resolution within the Pine forums in Other Technologies category; I have dialup networking. I just composed a message with the networking down, then brought up networking and tried to send the message. It wouldn't go, said the SMTP host I was trying to send to does not exist. To get the message to go out I had to quit alpine, then start it again (with networking up) and resume the message. It then went out OK. Why doesn't it wait until I am ready to send a message before trying to resolve the name of the host I am sending to? -- jhhaynes at earthlink dot net... | ||||||||
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08-20-2008, 09:34 PM
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 Hostname resolution I have dialup networking. I just composed a message with the networking down, then brought up networking and tried to send the message. It wouldn't go, said the SMTP host I was trying to send to does not exist. To get the message to go out I had to quit alpine, then start it again (with networking up) and resume the message. It then went out OK. Why doesn't it wait until I am ready to send a message before trying to resolve the name of the host I am sending to? -- jhhaynes at earthlink dot net  |
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08-21-2008, 04:13 AM
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| Re: Hostname resolution Jim Haynes <haynes@localhost6.localdomain6> wrote: > I have dialup networking. I just composed a message with the networking > down, then brought up networking and tried to send the message. It > wouldn't go, said the SMTP host I was trying to send to does not exist. > To get the message to go out I had to quit alpine, then start it again > (with networking up) and resume the message. It then went out OK. This works here without quitting alpine. Are you sure the connection is already up when you try to send? Can you ping the server? A workaround would be to send to a local queue and have an MTA do periodic SMTP sending. -- Niklaus |
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08-21-2008, 06:00 PM
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| Re: Hostname resolution On 20 Aug 2008 david read the comp.mail.pine post of Jim Haynes, which stated... > I have dialup networking. I just composed a message with the networking > down, then brought up networking and tried to send the message. It > wouldn't go, said the SMTP host I was trying to send to does not exist. > > To get the message to go out I had to quit alpine, then start it again > (with networking up) and resume the message. It then went out OK. > > Why doesn't it wait until I am ready to send a message before trying > to resolve the name of the host I am sending to? > Ok, I just use the PC versions and my knowledge of Pine/Alpine is limited, but I always thought that Pine/Alpine was an online email client. That is, the client establishes its environment on initialization. That would indicate that if Internet connectivity was not available at initialization, that you would experience what you described. The client works well in IMAP mode, but I'm wondering if your issue is POP-based. -- _____ david |
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