Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:02:47 -0800 (PST) From: Elfyn McBratney To: "David E. Bath" , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems with fetchmail and ping Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Originating-Ip: [195.92.67.75] Message-Id: <20021219220248.78DC5E4B7@sitemail.everyone.net> Have you installed ICS or any firewall software? If so this will explain: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q316414 Elfyn elfyn@exposure.org.uk --- "David E. Bath" wrote: >I had everything working well with my fetchmail setup. Then without >making any changes to the cygwin files or .fetchmailrc, fetchmail >started reporting: > >"POP3 connection to ****.*****.com failed: Connection refused" no >matter which server I try to access. > >Ping for the same address returns: > >"PING: transmit failed, error code 65." > >Since there are no man pages for ping, I have no idea what the error >code means. > >This is with WinXP on my desktop PC. I have the exact same setup on my >laptop PC, again with WinXP, and it works just fine. I suspect it's a >WinXP setup problem, but I don't know where to go from here to solve it. > >Any ideas? > > > > > > > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ _____________________________________________________________ www.smokeJet.com - Free UK Internet Services _____________________________________________________________ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get you@yourchoice.com w/No Ads, 6MB, POP & more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/