tlug: from popclient to fetchmail

[Kei Furuuchi <kfur@example.com>]

Eric Standlee writes:
 > On a tip from Karl-Max, I searched for a source copy of popclient to
 > rebuild...
 > 
 > I changed to fetchmail from popclient.  On the sunsite archive cd's I have,
 > it was touted as the replacement for popclient.
 > 
 > After fetchmail --version 'ing several times, I finally got my
 > ~/.fetchmailrc where it looked like it would work...  Find that below as
 > well as the output from a fetchmail -a -L ~/fet.log
 > 
 > I left the lengthy header to the .fetchmailrc file because I figured that
 > some may not be using fetchmail and yet may still be able to figure out my
 > errors with that bit of documentation...
 > 
 > You will notice that the problem is being reported in fet.log as a bad
 > password, but I triple checked and that is definitely the right password
 > which pon/pppd are using to login with...
 > 
 > SO CLOSE, and yet sooooooooo far....  ARRRRRG!
 > -----

Sometime password includes characters like # which is used by
fetchmail to comment out. You have to escape it by putting \ 
in front of #.
And 
	# telnet pop.netaddress.net 110
	pop.netaddress.net: Unknown host

Regards,
Kei.

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