>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bob> When I try to run fetchmail, my ISP is connected and when
Bob> attempting to retrieve mail, I get the error message:
Bob> reading message 1 (2679 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to
Bob> (null) failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while
Bob> fetching from pop.primenet.com
Bob> here is my ~/.fetchmailrc file:
Bob> poll pop.primenet.com proto pop3 user USERNAME pass PASSWORD
Try adding an `mda' line to it. Here's what I use:
poll mail.provider.com
protocol pop3
username myusername
password MYPASSWD
mda "formail -s procmail"
... I've got a rudimentary "~/.procmailrc" that tosses my mail into
spool files in "~/Mail/.incoming/", and I read my mail with XEmacs and
Gnus. I used the `nnfolder' setup almost verbatim from the TeXinfo
manual, and it works very well. My "~/.gnus" looks like this:
;; -*- emacs-lisp -*-
(require 'mime-setup)
(add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode)
(setq nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/"
nnmail-spool-file 'procmail
nnmail-procmail-directory "~/Mail/.incoming/"
gnus-select-method (quote (nntp "news.inetarena.com"))
gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnfolder ""))
nnmail-procmail-suffix ""
gnus-group-line-format
"%M\%S\%p\%P\%5y: %(%-40,40g%) %6,6~(cut 2)d\n")
(add-hook 'gnus-select-group-hook 'gnus-group-set-timestamp)
Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> finger or ytalk:
http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Portland, OR USA
Debian GNU 1.3 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133
