From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ulrich =?ISO-8859-1?Q?F=FCrst?=" Subject: Re: accessing email via POP3 Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:19:11 +0100 Message-ID: <20041201161911.12f40c9c@sarge> References: <33076594@newdoc.Dartmouth.ORG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <33076594@newdoc.Dartmouth.ORG> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs