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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:23:15 -0600
From: "David E. Bath" <davidbath1 AT attbi DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with fetchmail and ping
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It turned out to be a problem with ZoneAlarm as mentioned in the link. 
Funny thing, I hadn't run it since I got a router, but when I 
uninstalled it, it fixed the problem.

Thanks, Elfyn and everyone else!

Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> 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 AT exposure DOT org DOT uk
> 
> 
> --- "David E. Bath" <davidbath1 AT attbi DOT com> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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