Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 22:07:03 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> To: Tom Kersten <tomkersten98@yahoo.com> Cc: FBSDQ <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Is fetchmail with Cox possible????? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0203082157010.1287-100000@corten8> In-Reply-To: <20020309035339.41307.qmail@web10001.mail.yahoo.com>
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At Fri, 8 Mar 2002 it looks like Tom Kersten composed: > > What's the output of: > > > > echo $MAIL ? > > thomas@www:/home/thomas> echo $MAIL > /var/mail/thomas > .... OK, that looks good. > > and then what is the output of: > > > > ls -al `echo $MAIL` > > > > (ps, those are backquotes around the command) > > thomas@www:/home/thomas> ls -al `echo $MAIL` > -rw------- 1 thomas thomas 0 Mar 8 04:01 > /var/mail/thomas > .... well I believe, based on my perms on this machine -rw-r----- 1 thomas mail 0 Mar 8 04:01 > Let me know if this tells you anything, 'cuz I'm still > stuck.... > If you are sure that's the user id for that POP account why don't you "cross_check" it by entering those values in Netscape and see if you can pop the mail, if so I'd possibly "quote" that username in the ~/.fetchmailrc, I just don't like the looks of a "@" in the username, that's from fetchmail's eyes though and a gut feeling. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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