On 30 Nov 2004 15:54:46 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karthik Vishwanath Adv03) wrote: > My .fetchmailrc > looks like this: > --------- > set daemon 10 it's seconds you're giving as an argument. So that is: "poll every 10 seconds"
> poll newdoc.dartmouth.org and options no dns keep As far as I know you can't use options here but only in the next line: > user 'karthikv' there is 'karthik' here options a password is missing here. the syntax is: poll mail-server protocol POP3 user "karthikv", with password "hidden" is user "karthik" here options\ no dns keep But I guess you should use "no dns" so that fetchmail won't take it for to words (not tested). > $ fetchmail > fetchmail:/home/karthik/.fetchmailrc:6: parse error at user That says that you have an error in line 6. I guess it's the line beginning with poll (don't use options here) > > How can I fix this? (BTW, I had a whole load of dependency > issues on trying to install fetchmailconf...) I never could make much use of that program. I prefer to handle it via editor. hth Ulrich - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
