On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Britton wrote:
> Fetchmail has me completely baffled. I think is all the convenient noise
> language that has been introduced into the config file. Here is my
> situation:
>
> I have an account on my homemachine with usernam bkerin. My account name
> on my ISP is fsblk. I would like to be able to have all mail downloaded
> to my home machine but preserved on the remove machine until the next time
> fetchmail is run. The flush options appears to be intended for something
> like this. I have tried to many configurations to relate them all, but
> the one that appears to come closest to working and represent the least
> radical interpretation of the somewhat obscure man page looks like this:
>
> poll aurora.alaska.edu \
> protocol IMAP \
> timeout 200 \
> user fsblk is bkerin \
> pass fantasy \
> fetchall \
> keep
>
> With the keep in there so I don't lose my mail while experimenting. What
> happens when I run 'fetchmail' is this:
I would have :
user fsblk with pass fantasy is bkerin here
to keep it readable
> $ fetchmail
> fetchmail: 70 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> reading message 1 (1750 bytes) . not flushed
> reading message 2 (3984 bytes) ... not flushed
> reading message 3 (2816 bytes) .. not flushed
> .
> .
> .
> reading message 69 (2365 bytes) .. not flushed
> reading message 70 (855 bytes) not flushed
>
> The problem is that these messages don't show up on my home machine. For
> example:
>
> $ mail
> No mail for bkerin
This is interesting, the only reason I have is that fetchmail could not
connect to localhost to deliver mail... but it did not come up with an
error of that flavour....
> where this mail command has been executed immediately after the fetchmail
> comand above it. I believe my shell is set to alert me to incoming mail
> as well, and nothing shows up. Again, I suspect the problem is related to
> the fact that my user names on the systems are different.
Unlikely, mine are different also.
> As far as I know my mail setup is as generic as it gets in all other
> respects. If anyone out there has a working setup for circumstances like
> mine I would love to see the .fetchmailrc file that worked for you.
:) here... :
Although I am Pop3 :(
--------------------------~/.fetchmailrc------------------------
defaults
poll mail.es.co.nz proto POP3
user mickyb with password [password] is omnic here
smtphost localhost
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> Lastly, does anyone have a clean way set up to invoke fetchmail as root
> and get mail for all users? I would like to see that also.
just use the same .fetchmailrc... works for me.
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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