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From: "Ulrich Fürst" <liste3@vr-web.de>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: accessing email via POP3
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:19:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041201161911.12f40c9c@sarge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33076594@newdoc.Dartmouth.ORG>

On 30 Nov 2004 15:54:46 EST Karthik.Vishwanath.Adv03@Alum.Dartmouth.ORG
(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
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-01 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-30 20:54 accessing email via POP3 Karthik Vishwanath Adv03
2004-11-30 22:12 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-12-01 15:19 ` Ulrich Fürst [this message]
2004-12-01 17:19   ` J.
2004-12-01 22:13     ` Ulrich Fürst
2004-12-02  1:07       ` Peter
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-01 16:41 Karthik Vishwanath Adv03
2004-12-02  1:29 ` J.
2004-12-02  0:58 J.

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