Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 02:49:55 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Hyun Gu Kang <hyunkang@uiuc.edu> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting up fetchmail Message-ID: <20000513024955.A35425@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0005121602020.16349-100000@eesn24.ews.uiuc.edu>; from hyunkang@uiuc.edu on Fri, May 12, 2000 at 04:10:20PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005121110041.675-100000@myname.my.domain> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0005121602020.16349-100000@eesn24.ews.uiuc.edu>
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On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 04:10:20PM -0500, Hyun Gu Kang wrote: > I am wondering how to set up fetchmail- for some reason the fetchmailconf > program won't run even with Python installed. > > Does anyone have good ideas for doing mail in my current situation. > I get all my school mail to the school unix machines, and with Windows, i > used Eudora to use pop3 to get mail. The ~/.fetchmailrc file that I am using to fetch my mail from the campus machine called campus.host.name.gr for myself looks like: poll campus.host.name.gr proto pop3: user "myname", pass "******", is "localuser" here, fetchall, nokeep; Then, my local sendmail takes care of mail send to localuser@localhost and all works fine :) For more fetchmailrc options, see the manpage of fetchmail(1) where all the options of fetchmail are decribed in detail. Put this into a file called .fetchmailrc in your HOME directory, and edit appropriately. Then call fetchmail when you're connected to the net, as shown in: % fetchmail and watch it fetch your mail. If you want to test the ~/.fetchmailrc file, without actually fetching the mail (debugging your fetchmailrc is a good reason for doing such a thing): % fetchmail -c Ciao, Giorgos. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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