... if it is a mail server name problem, you can get the server's name through a whois query ..
Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Eric G . Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 12:16 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: fetchmail with ssh On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 09:02:01PM -0700, wtstacey wrote: > I'd like to get fetchmail to retrieve my mail after I login to my ppp > account, so I can read mail offline. I tried to get fetchmail to pop my > mail (without ssh) with this rc file: > > set daemon 300 # Poll at 5-minute intervals > set logfile .fetchlog > > poll hostname.org protocol POP3 username USERNAME password XXXXXXXX ^^^^^^^^^^^^ I take it this is not the real mail server. > but I get this in the log file: > > fetchmail: starting fetchmail 4.6.4 daemon > fetchmail: 4.6.4 querying hostname.org (protocol POP3) at Sun Jun 4 > 16:51:08 2000 > fetchmail: fetchmail: POP3 connection to hostname.org failed: Connection > refused > fetchmail: terminated with signal 15 My guess is you have the wrong mail server name. A typical ISP might have a server named 'mail.isp.net'. If that's not it, check your username and password and make sure ~/.fetchmailrc is chmod 600. My .fetchmail looks like: #----------------------------- poll mail.isp.net protocol pop3 timeout 60 username <there> is $USER here password <get your own!> #----------------------------- <snip ???> -- daw daw dit, daw daw daw, daw dit dit dit daw, dit dit daw dit, dit dit, dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit, daw dit dit dit daw, -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
