Sorry about that. I have to learn to hit the Reply All button for
linux-newbie. I'm forwarding my reply to the list.
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Yawar Amin
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Karthik Vishwanath Adv03 wrote:
Hello,
I receive mail on this account that can be accessed via
POP3. I used to use fetchmail as my mail-fetcher on an old
machine to do this. I am trying to do the same from another
machine that runs Redhat 9 (Linux 2.4.20-8) and seems like I
cannot decipher how exactly to do this (perusing the
fetchmail man page had me really confused). My .fetchmailrc
looks like this:
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set syslog
set daemon 10
poll newdoc.dartmouth.org and options no dns keep
user 'karthikv' there is 'karthik' here options
---------
$ fetchmail
fetchmail:/home/karthik/.fetchmailrc:6: parse error at user
How can I fix this? (BTW, I had a whole load of dependency
issues on trying to install fetchmailconf...)
Thanks!
-K
Another thing: instead of using a .fetchmailrc file, you could try
supplying all the options to the fetchmail command line itself, thus:
$ fetchmail --keep --protocol POP3 --username karthikv
newdoc.dartmouth.org
Note: The above command should be all in one line, and there
should be a space between `karthikv' and `newdoc.dartmouth.org'.
Also, I'm not sure why you're using `no dns' -- to get a speed
boost? In that case you could skip the hostname and just use the
IP address, 129.170.16.86.
Of course, first you have to make sure fetchmail doesn't see a
.fetchmailrc file in your home directory, so rename it to
fetchmailrc or something like that.
HTH,
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Yawar Amin
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