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 <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
 <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
 <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/12/17 19:17:54 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/12/29 00:11:13 $
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 <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ mail it to fetchmail's maintainer, Eric S. Raymond, at
 <a href="#G9">G9. Is any special configuration needed to use a dynamic
 IP address?</a><br>
 <a href="#G10">G10. Is any special configuration needed to use firewalls?</a><br>
+<a href="#G11">G11. Is any special configuration needed to <em>send</em> mail?</a><br>
 
 <h1>Build-time problems:</h1>
 
@@ -526,6 +527,24 @@ will be happier.''<P>
 
 I couldn't have put it better myself, and ain't going to try now.<P>
 
+<hr>
+<h2><a name="G11">G11. Is any special configuration needed to <em>send</em> mail?</a></h2>
+
+A user asks: but how do we send mail out to the POP3 server? Do I need
+to implement another tool or will fetchmail do this too?<p>
+
+Fetchmail only handles the receiving side.  The sendmail or other
+preinstalled MTA on your client machine will handle sending mail
+automatically; it will ship mail that is submitted while the
+connection is active, and put mail that is submitted while
+the connection is inactive into the outgoing queue.<P>
+
+Normally, sendmail is also run periodically (every 15 minutes on most
+Linux systems) in a mode that tries to ship all the mail in the
+outgoing queue.  If you have set up something like pppd to
+automatically dial out when your kernel is called to open a TCP/IP
+connection, this will ensure that the mail gets out.<P>
+
 <hr>
 <h2><a name="B2">B2. I get link failures when I try to build fetchmail.</a></h2>
 
@@ -1561,6 +1580,12 @@ sure it says something like
 
 again, in order to make sure <code>/etc/hosts</code> is seen first.<P>
 
+If you have a hostname set for your machine, and this hostname does
+not appear in /etc/hosts, you will be able to telnet to port 25 and
+even send a mail with rcpt to: user@host-not-in-/etc/hosts, but
+fetchmail can't seem to get in touch with sendmail, no matter what you
+set smtpaddress to.<p>
+
 We had another report from a Linux user of fetchmail 2.1 who solved his SMTP
 connection problem by removing the reference to -lresolv from his link
 line and relinking.  Apparently in some older Linux distributions the
@@ -2215,7 +2240,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.<P>
 <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
 <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
 <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/12/17 19:17:54 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/12/29 00:11:13 $
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 <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>