Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 09:03:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Stephen A. Derdau" <sderdau@sderdau.ne.mediaone.net> To: Juergen Nickelsen <jnickelsen@acm.org> Cc: Ghulam Dastgir <banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fetchmail problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906090902130.39003-100000@sderdau.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: <x7g142s0c9.fsf@goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de>
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Try running fetchmailconf Than look at your ~.fetchmailrc file . FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE On 9 Jun 1999, Juergen Nickelsen wrote: > "Ghulam Dastgir" <banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk> writes: > > > $ fetchmail -u ghulam mail.force9.net > > > > Then I get the password prompt, after which the following output: > > > > fetchmail: IMAP connection to mail.force9.net failed: local error: = > > Connection refused > > fetchmail seems to try an IMAP4 connection first by default. > > > fetchmail: 1 message for ghulam at mail.force9.net > > At this point, fetchmail has succeded with a POP3 connection (I > think). > > > reading message 1 of 1 (2075 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to = > > voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk failed: Operation timed out > > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching mail from = > > mail.force9.net > > fetchmail tried to deliver the message on your local host via SMTP > (which is the default AFAIK). If you don't have an SMTP server running > (usually sendmail), this won't work -- you either need an SMTP server > (e. g. sendmail) or some other delivery agent (e. g. procmail); in the > latter case you need the --mda option of fetchmail. > > Instead of the commandline options, you should consider using a > $HOME/.fetchmailrc -- this is much more convenient. Let's have a look > at my .fetchmailrc: > > ---- > poll berlin.snafu.de with proto POP3 > user "jn" there with password "xxxxxxxx" is > jnickelsen@acm.org here warnings 3600 fetchall > ---- > > In plain English, this is: > - Get mail from host berlin.snafu.de with POP3 > - my account on that host is jn, password xxxxxxxx (actually it is > different, of course) > - here, at the localhost, deliver the mail to jnickelsen@acm.org > (which is my "official" private address, but will be rewritten by > my MTA) > - send warnings about oversized messages very 3600 seconds > - fetch all messages (even the ones already read) > > I recommend you study the fetchmail(1) manual page in detail -- it is > very instructive. > > > BTW, I'd appreciate it if you could write your messages in plain text > *without* the HTML. > > -- > Juergen Nickelsen > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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