On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 09:21:48AM -0500, wild bill wrote:
> I setup fetchmail and got it to work. I also setup PINE as my reader. The
> problem I have is that when fetchmail is invoked, it connects to my isp
> mailserver and downloads the messages,then .............So far I haven't been
> able to figure out how to read it. It is like it is deleted.
> Here is the ./fetchmail file
> ---poll [EMAIL PROTECTED] proto pop3 password 1234567
> ---username myname fetchall
> I am sespecting that I need to set something else up. What is it??
>
Thanks for breaking the monotony, man.
This should be .fetchmailrc, or is that a typo?
The default mail location for new mail is /var/spool/mail/$USER. Have
a look there and see if it is empty or not. Mail will be in one text
file IIRC. If it is not there, the problem is with fetchmail. If it
is, the problem is pine not finding it. I don't use pine, but I do
have
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/hal
in my environment. You might check that you have that ( set | grep
MAIL ). This is my working .fetchmailrc:
poll mail.sdf.bellsouth.net proto POP3
timeout 20
user hburgiss is hal
fetchall
password xxxxxx
nokeep
Also, if you start fetchmail with the '-v' option, you get good
diagnostics in /var/log/maillog, in case you need to troubleshoot
further.
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Hal B
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