Re: accessing email via POP3

Ulrich Fürst
2004-12-01T15:19:11Z

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