From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 20:27:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web1610.mail.yahoo.com (web1610.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.164]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7592937B9B5 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 20:27:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from apeak_2000@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 21945 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Aug 2000 03:27:49 -0000 Message-ID: <20000809032749.21944.qmail@web1610.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.94.170.220] by web1610.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 08 Aug 2000 20:27:49 PDT Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 20:27:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Allan Peak Subject: Re: fetchmail To: Dan Nelson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This time I typed fetchmail -u apeak_2000 pop.mail.yahoo.com and it said something about a "socket error" and it seemed to copy 1 or 2 messages but gave me a bunch of lines that said "skipping message xxx not flushed". It recognized how many messages I had but only copied the latest. Allan --- Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Aug 08), Allan Peak said: > > I want to copy my mail from my Yahoo account to my > local machine. I > > tried typing fetchmail -u apeak_2000 > mail.yahoo.com, and it asked for > > my password and after I typed it in it just seemed > to freeze. > > Please see > http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-03.html > for > instructions on getting Yahoo mail via pop3. > mail.yahoo.com is for > webmail only. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message