From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amin Subject: [Fwd: Re: accessing email via POP3] Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 14:05:09 +0600 Message-ID: <41AD7B35.7030701@siriusbb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------010705010506010004080904" Return-path: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------010705010506010004080904 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sorry about that. I have to learn to hit the Reply All button for linux-newbie. I'm forwarding my reply to the list. -- Yawar Amin --------------010705010506010004080904 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="Re: accessing email via POP3.eml" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Re: accessing email via POP3.eml" Message-ID: <41AD6CBF.8040808@siriusbb.com> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 13:03:27 +0600 From: Amin User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: karthikv@Alum.Dartmouth.ORG Subject: Re: accessing email via POP3 References: <33076594@newdoc.Dartmouth.ORG> In-Reply-To: <33076594@newdoc.Dartmouth.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Karthik Vishwanath Adv03 wrote: > Hello, > > I receive mail on this account that can be accessed via > POP3. I used to use fetchmail as my mail-fetcher on an old > machine to do this. I am trying to do the same from another > machine that runs Redhat 9 (Linux 2.4.20-8) and seems like I > cannot decipher how exactly to do this (perusing the > fetchmail man page had me really confused). My .fetchmailrc > looks like this: > --------- > set syslog > set daemon 10 > poll newdoc.dartmouth.org and options no dns keep > user 'karthikv' there is 'karthik' here options > > --------- > > $ fetchmail > fetchmail:/home/karthik/.fetchmailrc:6: parse error at user > > How can I fix this? (BTW, I had a whole load of dependency > issues on trying to install fetchmailconf...) > > > Thanks! > > -K Another thing: instead of using a .fetchmailrc file, you could try supplying all the options to the fetchmail command line itself, thus: $ fetchmail --keep --protocol POP3 --username karthikv newdoc.dartmouth.org Note: The above command should be all in one line, and there should be a space between `karthikv' and `newdoc.dartmouth.org'. Also, I'm not sure why you're using `no dns' -- to get a speed boost? In that case you could skip the hostname and just use the IP address, 129.170.16.86. Of course, first you have to make sure fetchmail doesn't see a .fetchmailrc file in your home directory, so rename it to fetchmailrc or something like that. HTH, -- Yawar Amin --------------010705010506010004080904-- - 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