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Re: Problems with fetchmail and ping


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" <davidbath1@attbi.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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