Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:39:25 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Kersten <tomkersten98@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Is fetchmail with Cox possible????? Message-ID: <20020306193925.4921.qmail@web10007.mail.yahoo.com>
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--0-2108276659-1015443565=:4886 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hello all, I am having trouble receiving my email from Cox's POP3 server (pop.west.cox.net). I am running FreeBSD-4.5 and have fetchmail installed. I have attached the entry applying to fetchmail from my ipf.rules file and my ~/.fetchmailrc file. I am entering the command "fetchmail" and am then prompted for my password, which I enter. I then regain my prompt, as if everything worked (assuming I am not supposed to see any text appear while retrieval takes place). However, I do not receive the mail stored on my account...any ideas on what I am doing wrong???? TIA, Thomas Kersten __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ --0-2108276659-1015443565=:4886 Content-Type: text/plain; name="configs.txt" Content-Description: configs.txt Content-Disposition: inline; filename="configs.txt" IPF.rules ********* <--clipped--> pass in quick on rl0 proto smtp from 68.1.17.2 to my.ip.add.ress port = 25 flags S keep state<--clipped--> 68.1.17.2 is the IP address of the POP server my mail is coming from (according to a ping command). I allowed port 25 with the SMTP protocol because of the following sentence in the fetchmail man page: "As each message is retrieved fetchmail normally delivers it via SMTP to port 25 on the machine it is running on (localhost), just as though it were being passed in over a normal TCP/IP link" ~/.fetchmailrc ************** set daemon 60 poll pop.west.cox.net protocol POP3 username thomas@mydomain.net fetchall This information seems to be correct from what I have read about fetchmail, the POP server is correct and uses the POP3 protocol. The one thing I am unsure of is the username. In the web-interface that Cox has set up (for online mail retrieval), it is my login, but when I run the "fetchmail" command and it prompts for my password, the username becomes "thomas@mydomain.net@pop.west.cox.net"...I am not sure if the two @'s are affecting anything. --0-2108276659-1015443565=:4886-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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