Query Regarding Mail Server

[Manish Kathuria]

Vinayak Mahadevan wrote:
> I have installed FC5 on a machine which I am planning to use as the mail
> server. The machine does not have a direct connection to the internet but
> connects through proxy. When I try to retrieve the mail using fetchmail i
> get an error saying "Name resolution failure(external mail server url)" 

Make sure that you have specified reachable DNS servers in 
/etc/resolv.conf and access to destination port 110 is allowed by your 
firewall.

but
> when i type in the same website address in firefox browser I am able to view
> the web interface of my external mail server. I am not able to figure out
> where I am going wrong.

This happens because in this case the name resolution is done by the 
proxy server and not the system running FC5.

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