Re: how to config /etc/fetchmailrc

2010-08-03 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue August 3 2010, 郭家华 wrote: > poll imap.gmail.com with proto IMAP user X pass X ssl fetchall > -- > my debian username is xyz > > but all the mails is fetched to /var/mail/fetchmail, not /var/mail/xyz > I wander why and how to let all mails be fetched into

Re: how to config /etc/fetchmailrc

2010-08-03 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue August 3 2010, 郭家华 wrote: > poll imap.gmail.com with proto IMAP user X pass X is xyz here ssl fetchall > -- > my debian username is xyz > > but all the mails is fetched to /var/mail/fetchmail, not /var/mail/xyz > I wander why and how to let all mails be

how to config /etc/fetchmailrc

2010-08-03 Thread 郭家华
I wander how to config /etc/fetchmailrc I configed it as below: -- set postmaster "xyz" set bouncemail set no spambounce set properties "" poll imap.gmail.com with proto IMAP user X pass X ssl fetchall -- my de

Re: Stupid fetchmailrc quiestion

2004-02-23 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-24, stan penned: > OK, I just tried abut a dozen things, none of which worked :-( > > What's the syntax of adding the ssl keyword to a fetchmailrc for an > individual site? I tried: > > ssl; set ssl; > > and some other stupid things, all in the section as

Re: Stupid fetchmailrc quiestion

2004-02-23 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:34:59 -0500 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, I just tried abut a dozen things, none of which worked :-( > > What's the syntax of adding the ssl keyword to a fetchmailrc for an > individual site? I tried: > > ssl; > set ssl; >

Stupid fetchmailrc quiestion

2004-02-23 Thread stan
OK, I just tried abut a dozen things, none of which worked :-( What's the syntax of adding the ssl keyword to a fetchmailrc for an individual site? I tried: ssl; set ssl; and some other stupid things, all in the section associated with that specific stie, and all I could get was syntax e

Re: fetchmailrc and spamc

2003-12-31 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Finally I found what I was looking for: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/exim-spamassassin/ Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, since a while I have tried to configure my laptop to fetch my emails from my pop3 box (this part is ok) _AND_ to use spamc to put away the junk emails: I can not

fetchmailrc and spamc

2003-12-31 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, since a while I have tried to configure my laptop to fetch my emails from my pop3 box (this part is ok) _AND_ to use spamc to put away the junk emails: I can not figure out how to do that. Any sample of configuration files may be hepful, as up to now I am lost in the manuals. Thanks in

Re: Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-14 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Gary" == Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> Thanks to Shyamal Prasad for noticing the syntax error in Gary> the config. I wish he had noticed the dot com thing too :) I guess I was not using "the same pop server as you" ;-) I just caught up with this thread, was out of t

Re: Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-12 Thread Gary Turner
Gary Turner wrote: >Rob Weir wrote: > >>On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:34:59PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >>> Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>> >On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:17:37AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >[...] >>> >> Now I'm back to "couldn'y find canonical DNS name for >>> >> pop.sbc... normal termination,

Re: Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-12 Thread Gary Turner
Rob Weir wrote: >On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:34:59PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> Rob Weir wrote: >> >> >On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:17:37AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: [...] >> >> Now I'm back to "couldn'y find canonical DNS name for >> >> pop.sbc... normal termination, status 11" From the manual:

Re: Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:34:59PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: > > >On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:17:37AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > >> Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > [...] > >> > >> >Also, I don't use 'auth' and it works fine. I use the same POP server > >> >as you are trying to use. >

Re: Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-11 Thread Gary Turner
Rob Weir wrote: >On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:17:37AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> Shyamal Prasad wrote: [...] >> >> >Also, I don't use 'auth' and it works fine. I use the same POP server >> >as you are trying to use. >> >> Dropping the "auth" did the job on syntax. Funny, I added it because I >

Re: Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-11 Thread Rob Weir
TED]", with password "secret" > >Gary> is "gt" here > >Gary> auth > > > >Hmmusually I write 'user user@host there with password..." while > >your file is missing the word 'there' and has a comma instead. Perh

Re: Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-11 Thread Gary Turner
Gary> auth > >Hmmusually I write 'user user@host there with password..." while >your file is missing the word 'there' and has a comma instead. Perhaps >that is the problem. Admittedly the comma may work as well as the word >'there'... fetchmail

RE: Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-11 Thread drew cohan
;>the user line all one line, like: Then Gary Turner replied: >No joy. The comma was in an example in the manual. But at your >suggestion, I did remove it. Still had the same error. I didn't post >them, but I did have some honest syntax errors earlier, which I fixed. >Now

Re: Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-11 Thread Shyamal Prasad
er user@host there with password..." while your file is missing the word 'there' and has a comma instead. Perhaps that is the problem. Admittedly the comma may work as well as the word 'there'... fetchmailrc is just so flexibile it drives you crazy ;-) Also, I don

Re: Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-11 Thread Gary Turner
drew cohan wrote: >>poll pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.net proto POP3 >> user "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", with password "secret" >> is "gt" here > >I'm no fetchmail expert, but what happens if you remove the comma and make >the user line all one line, like: No joy. The comma was in an example in the manu

RE: Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-11 Thread drew cohan
o.net proto POP3 user "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with password "secret" is "gt" here That's basically what I have in my fetchmailrc. There's also a nice gui frontend to configure fetchmail that I find useful to get the initial config file: http://packages.d

Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-11 Thread Gary Turner
I have the following error message when running Fetchmail from the command line. gt@koko:~$ fetchmail -v fetchmail:/home/gt/.fetchmailrc:10: parse error at end of input or, gt@koko:~$ fetchmail -u [EMAIL PROTECTED] pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.net fetchmail:/home/gt/.fetchmailrc:10: parse error at end

Re: portable .fetchmailrc

2002-09-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.25.1954 +0200]: > Since I'm going to change my $USERNAME, I'm thinking of rewriting my > ..fetchmailrc so it will survive the transition. Given a .fetchmailrc > line consisting of: > > user 'foo' there with

portable .fetchmailrc

2002-09-25 Thread csj
Since I'm going to change my $USERNAME, I'm thinking of rewriting my ..fetchmailrc so it will survive the transition. Given a .fetchmailrc line consisting of: user 'foo' there with password 'whocares' is 'bar' here is there a way to achieve the equivale

Re: .fetchmailrc problems

2001-12-24 Thread Jijo Jose A
t; ... > fetchmail : fetching 94 mails for username > fetchmail : SMTP error 10 . > > And thus I am not able to fetch any mails . > > What can this mean ? > > -- ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) u can read the man fetchmail. and try to configure the .fetchmailrc my .fetchmailrc is

Re: .fetchmailrc problems

2001-12-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
. Valid list of commands : UIDL , This part may be the critical message ;) > ... > fetchmail : fetching 94 mails for username > fetchmail : SMTP error 10 . Did you try running it with "-U" option for UIDL ? Did you try AUTO instead of POP3? My functioning /etc/fetchmailrc is poll

Re: .fetchmailrc problems

2001-12-24 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I made the following entry in my .fetcmailrc : > poll pop3.eth.net proto POP3 user username password mypass > > This leads to an error : > fetchmail :Command not supported . Valid list of commands : UIDL , > ... > fetchmail : fetching 94 mails for username > fe

.fetchmailrc problems

2001-12-24 Thread shyamk
I made the following entry in my .fetcmailrc : poll pop3.eth.net proto POP3 user username password mypass This leads to an error : fetchmail :Command not supported . Valid list of commands : UIDL , ... fetchmail : fetching 94 mails for username fetchmail : SMTP error 10 . And thus I am not a

Re: System-wide fetchmailrc

2001-07-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:33:26AM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > > So, it's fine now, but I'm still stumped as to how the system-wide > > fetchmail process ended up in a state where it was running but not > > working, and I'm not looking forward to

Re: System-wide fetchmailrc

2001-07-14 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:33:26AM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > So, it's fine now, but I'm still stumped as to how the system-wide > fetchmail process ended up in a state where it was running but not > working, and I'm not looking forward to having to periodically restart > the process myself

Re: System-wide fetchmailrc

2001-07-14 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
> Hint: /etc/default/fetchmail. Okay; I tried that and it works now after I stopped it and restarted it. (Also, I should note that when it wasn't working, I was still able to retrieve mail by manually running fetchmail as a user (using the user's ~/.fetchmailrc, which differs from /etc

Re: System-wide fetchmailrc

2001-07-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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System-wide fetchmailrc

2001-07-14 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
I set up a system-wide fetchmailrc recently to grab mail for both my gf and myself. It worked fine for a while, automatically receiving mail whenever we connected (PPP) and every 450 seconds as I specified. Then it just stopped. The process is still running: hawk3:~$ ps ax | grep fetchmail

Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

2001-06-29 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:18:15 -0700 Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you should file a wishlist bug report to the fetchmail > maintainer regarding your posting. > > fetchmail did not install /etc/init.d/fetchmail in potato and > documentation on howto do it had some issues. I filed

Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

2001-06-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
morning, so I can read my mail on > the train while commuting to work. > However I woudn't be posting if I didn't have a problem: whenever I do an > apt-get upgrade on the laptop, and fetchmail gets upgraded (about 3 times > last week, running sid), the postinst script det

Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

2001-06-24 Thread Mart van de Wege
Ok thanks Jimmy, Together with another problem I had I am now in for some shell scripting over the week. I just *know* I am going to enjoy this :). Sorry about the double replies, I just tend to hit 'Reply All' without thinking, I'll be more careful from now on. (BTW seems I am not the only one wi

Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

2001-06-24 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 09:17:11PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > Hmm, > > Sylpheed doesn't seem to want to include your original post in the reply, > so apologies if this is a little disjointed. > Since the /etc/pcmcia/network script starts as root, it would be a minor > change to just add a 's

Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

2001-06-24 Thread Mart van de Wege
Hmm, Sylpheed doesn't seem to want to include your original post in the reply, so apologies if this is a little disjointed. Since the /etc/pcmcia/network script starts as root, it would be a minor change to just add a 'su fetchmail -c ' instead of starting fetchmail as root outright? Does this ret

Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

2001-06-24 Thread Jimmy Richards
- Forwarded message from longshot - To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc? Hi, should be able to get the debconf configuration to come up by running the command 'dpkg -reconfigure -plow fetchmail'. -- Sorr

Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

2001-06-24 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:23:05PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 12:19:51 -0500 > ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As far as /etc/fetchmailrc being chowned to root. I would think that is > > the > > way it should be. With very f

Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

2001-06-24 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 12:19:51 -0500 ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as /etc/fetchmailrc being chowned to root. I would think that is > the > way it should be. With very few exceptions, in /etc, most are > root.root. > I suspect what you could do is c

Re: Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

2001-06-23 Thread ktb
ever I do an > apt-get upgrade on the laptop, and fetchmail gets upgraded (about 3 times > last week, running sid), the postinst script detects an existing > /etc/fetchmailrc and promptly chowns it fetchmail.root and installs > fetchmail in /etc/init.d. My fetchmail that runs from the pcmc

Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

2001-06-23 Thread Mart van de Wege
e postinst script detects an existing /etc/fetchmailrc and promptly chowns it fetchmail.root and installs fetchmail in /etc/init.d. My fetchmail that runs from the pcmcia script then starts complaining to the syslog that it doesn't own the fetchmailrc file, and the other fetchmail daemon starts co

Re: .fetchmailrc

1999-07-12 Thread Kris
Patrick Kirk wrote: >Also, after chown 0710 I get ^ What happened to chmod? >rhino:~# ls -al .fetchmailrc >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 164 Jul 12 15:51 .fetchmailrc chown user.group ~/.fetchmailrc -- Kris For a faster reply, use: smaug [{at}] du

.fetchmailrc

1999-07-12 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, After a heavy couple of hours reading man fetchmail I came up with this .fetchmailrc: set postmaster "patrick" poll pop.dial.pipex.com with proto POP3 user "maxy36" there with password "ngookich" is patrick here options fetchall warnings 3600 But I

Re: passwords in .fetchmailrc

1999-05-31 Thread Carl Mummert
The danger in putting your password in .fetchmailrc: it is an obvious place to look. Suppose that I were a cracker, and that I were eager to find a way to compromise your account. (Note the subjunctive here). Say that I find a way to have your computer send me the contents of any file (this

RE: .fetchmailrc (or: 'rtwfm')

1999-05-30 Thread Pollywog
On 30-May-99 David Karlin wrote: > Hi Andrew, > AFAIK 'chmod 600 ' and 'chmod u=rw,g=,o= ' do > exactly the same thing. The letters are more intuitive for me, > even if a bit more typing. > > --David > You are right, but it is easier to remember 'chmod 600', for me anyway. -- Andrew

RE: .fetchmailrc (or: 'rtwfm')

1999-05-30 Thread David Karlin
> -Original Message- > From: Pollywog [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 29, 1999 11:31 PM > To: David Karlin > Cc: Debian User; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: .fetchmailrc (or: 'rtwfm') > > > > On 30-May-99 David Karlin w

RE: .fetchmailrc (or: 'rtwfm')

1999-05-30 Thread Pollywog
On 30-May-99 David Karlin wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for your speedy responses, pointers to the proper section > of the manpage, and sample .fetchmailrc files. After going back > and reading the _whole_ f***ing manual, (okay, I admit that I > skimmed some of it) I edited my f

RE: .fetchmailrc (or: 'rtwfm')

1999-05-30 Thread David Karlin
Hi, Thanks for your speedy responses, pointers to the proper section of the manpage, and sample .fetchmailrc files. After going back and reading the _whole_ f***ing manual, (okay, I admit that I skimmed some of it) I edited my file, and am now downloading mail without the bother of entering my

Re: Nvi saved the file .fetchmailrc ?

1999-04-17 Thread ivan
> Somewhat confusingly, this only started working in slink but files were > saved from much earlier. Yesterday was the first time one of my systems > was rebooted since installing slink, and I got messages about files > saved from 1996! > I hope you remember whether or not to keep the changes I

Re: Nvi saved the file .fetchmailrc ?

1999-04-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 05:55:09PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 09:50:30AM +0100, Shaun Lipscombe wrote: > > > > how does the system know this? I mean what script or program notices > > and sends a mail report? > > > >From what I can see the script /etc/rcS.d/S70nvib

Re: Nvi saved the file .fetchmailrc ?

1999-04-15 Thread ivan
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 02:23:19PM +0100, Shaun Lipscombe wrote: > > ahh, so its not generic, I mean, it only works for nvi then. Its just > I run things like tcplogger, etc, and they mail me sometimes ... its > like the box has a mind of its own What's the for ? You're not trying to tel

Re: Nvi saved the file .fetchmailrc ?

1999-04-15 Thread ivan
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 09:50:30AM +0100, Shaun Lipscombe wrote: > > how does the system know this? I mean what script or program notices > and sends a mail report? > >From what I can see the script /etc/rcS.d/S70nviboot takes care of this. I maybe wrong and look forward to corrections if that

Re: Nvi saved the file .fetchmailrc ?

1999-04-14 Thread ivan
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 10:05:03PM -, Pollywog wrote: > Seems every time I reboot, I get this silly message: > > On 14-Apr-99 Nvi recovery program wrote: > > On Sun Feb 21 07:03:15 1999, the user pollywog was editing a > > file named .fetchmailrc on the machine lilypad,

Nvi saved the file .fetchmailrc ?

1999-04-14 Thread Pollywog
Seems every time I reboot, I get this silly message: On 14-Apr-99 Nvi recovery program wrote: > On Sun Feb 21 07:03:15 1999, the user pollywog was editing a > file named .fetchmailrc on the machine lilypad, when it was > saved for recovery. You can recover most, if not all, of the >