Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 04:47:52 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> To: "Tom Kersten" <tomkersten98@yahoo.com> Cc: "FBSDQ" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Is fetchmail with Cox possible????? Message-ID: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOEEPECJAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20020307061904.90803.qmail@web10006.mail.yahoo.com>
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Try sending your self some mail so your ISP mailbox
has something in it to send you when you do a fetchmail.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Tom Kersten
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 1:19 AM
To: Peter Leftwich; Andreas Ntaflos
Cc: Tom Kersten; FreeBSD Questions
Subject: Re: Is fetchmail with Cox possible?????
Hello again,
ok...here is my new ~/.fetchmailrc file....
set postmaster "thomas"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
set daemon 600
poll smtp.west.cox.net with proto POP3
username "thomas@mydomain.com"
-----------------
now i get the correct prompt
("thomas@mydomain.com@smtp.west.cox.net") but still no
mail. does anyone have any other suggestions on what
is going wrong?????????/
Thomas
--- Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> wrote:
> I had the same problem Tom had, where it looked like
> fetchmail ran ok then
> returned me to a prompt. Maybe it was in -i info
> mode or -c check-only
> mode, but may I ask a followup question please?
>
> Has anyone gotten a line similar to Andreas's "poll"
> one below to work
> using SSL? Could someone layout the framework for
> such a sample
> .fetchmailrc please? Word on Freebsd Street is that
> IMAP is fast
> obsoletizing POP3, so I was considering IMAP,
> although all I'm interested
> in is one mail folder (then I can do PINE or
> procmail filtration locally on
> my FreeBSD 4.5 box). Mucho del'apprecianado!
>
> --
> Peter Leftwich
> President & Founder
> Video2Video Services
> Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA
> +1-413-403-9555
>
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
> > Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > Received: from mail5.registeredsite.com
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> > [64.224.9.14])
> > by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with
> ESMTP id 2A43828CDA
> > for <pete@cloud9.net>; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:03:59
> -0500 (EST)
> > Received: from mail.video2video.com
> (mail.video2video.com [209.35.10.22])
> > by mail5.registeredsite.com (8.11.6/8.11.4) with
> ESMTP id
> > g26JC4m02972
> > for <pete@cloud9.net>; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 14:12:04
> -0500
> > Received: from mx2.freebsd.org [209.35.10.22] by
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> > Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 21:03:39 +0100
> > From: Andreas Ntaflos <ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net>
> > To: Tom Kersten <tomkersten98@yahoo.com>
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> > Subject: Re: Is fetchmail with Cox possible?????
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> > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:39:25AM -0800, Tom
> Kersten wrote:
> > > ~/.fetchmailrc
> > > **************
> > > set daemon 60
> > > poll pop.west.cox.net
> > > protocol POP3
> > > username thomas@mydomain.net
> > > fetchall
> >
> > Don't know wether you have any other configuration
> mishaps, but I think your username entry is wrong,
> AFAIK you have to set it to the
> username/login/accountname you have on the
> mailserver. That's what I have in my .fetchmailrc:
> > poll gmx.net username "MY_USERNAME_THERE"
> > HTH
> > --
> > Andreas "ant" Ntaflos
> > ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net
> > Vienna, AUSTRIA
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