Re: tlug: from popclient to fetchmail

["Jonathan Byrne" <jpmag@example.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Standlee <fwiw3980@example.com>


Try this: make a .fetchmailrc that contains a line like
this, and nothing else:

poll your.mail.server proto pop3 user yourid pass
yourpassword

and let me know if that works.  Of course, put your actual
server name, userid, and password in the .fetchmailrc file
:-)

If you want to run it as a daemon and check mail every 10
minutes, make the first line of .fetchmailrc:

set daemon 600

If you want to check mail less or more often, change the
number to the number of seconds you want in the interval.

Another good approach for troubleshooting is to run
fetchmail from the command line with no .fetchmailrc, like
this:

fetchmail your.mail.server -p pop3 -u youruserid

The next thing that should happen is fetchmail will ask for
the password.  Then you should should see status messages
coming up on the console as it goes, including the number of
messages it is downloading from the server.  If you want,
you can also use the -k option to keep your messages on the
server instead of deleting them, while you are testing this.

Cheers,

Jonathan

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