I tried changing to 'fetchmail --quit' but got an error and fetchmail wouldn't work. So I changed the daemon number to 3 seconds. I still get nothing. I see nothing in my "/var/spool/mail/fkent" permisions are: -rw-rw---- 1 fkent mail
It seems to me if I use the -v flag such as "fetchmail -v mail.inebraska.com" I should at least see something (the man page says it writes to stderr) at the command line. I also tried "fetchmail -k mail.inebraska.com" to pull the mail off the server but it doesn't. The mail is still there. So I don't know. Maybe if I had another 1000 lines of man page I could figure this fetchmail stuff out:) Thanks, kent ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 9:23 PM Subject: Re: fetchmail / s10/10.0.2.15 > On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 08:54:20PM -0500, ktb wrote: > > I don't think the last message I sent went through due to me > > changing some things in the rc files. Ayway I will start over. > > > > I changed the "poll" section in .fetchmailrc and now I get: > > $ fetchmail -c mail.inebraska.com > > 8 messages for xyf at mail.inebraska.com (17181 octets). > > > > So it seems I am closer once again but when I try: > > $ fetchmail -av mail.inebraska.com to get my mail all I get > > back is a command line. > > Which is, actually, what I think you should be getting ... > > > Here is what I have in .fetchmailrc: > > ------------------------------------ > > # This is what the developer's .fetchmailrc looks like: > > > > set daemon 300 # Poll at 5-minute intervals > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > ... because of this line. > > > defaults > > # interface "sl0/10.0.2.15" # SLIRP standard address > > # user esr is esr fetchmail-friends magic-numbers here > > fetchall > > > > # Use this for production > > poll mail.inebraska.com protocol POP3: > > user xyf > > password xxxxxxxxxxx; > > --------------------------------- > > I'd bet that if you run 'ps aux | grep fetchmail' you will see a line > something similar to: > mike 17617 0.0 1.1 1676 752 ? S 20:48 0:00 fetchmail -d 120 > > (Note: I run fetchmail a bit differently than you, so it'll most likely > look a bit different on your system.) > > The line I marked in your .fetchmailrc says to run fetchmail in daemon > mode. It won't do anything noticeable right off. But every 5 minutes > it'll go check every mail server defined in your .fetchmailrc and grab > all of the mail from those servers. That mail will then end up in your > incoming spool, unless you have done something odd with exim. > > To get something more like what you are probably expecting, comment > out the line that says 'set daemon 300', do 'fetchmail --quit', and > then try again. > -- > Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" > ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" > '91 GS500E | > Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
