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Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 22:07:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>
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To: Tom Kersten <tomkersten98@yahoo.com>
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Subject: RE: Is fetchmail with Cox possible?????
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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.

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