From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 1 13:18:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA3C837B416 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:18:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from twincat.vladsempire.net (unknown [209.105.45.85]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2229F31C for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 15:18:22 -0600 (CST) Received: by twincat.vladsempire.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 224B9385E; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:19:14 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:19:14 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: "Russell A. Khurshudian" Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: Problem with fetchmail (not receiving mail properly) Message-ID: <20011201131913.B493@twincat.vladsempire.net> Mail-Followup-To: "Russell A. Khurshudian" , Freebsd-Questions References: <000001c17a99$39f3d2b0$0200a8c0@networld> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000001c17a99$39f3d2b0$0200a8c0@networld>; from russell_k@acedsl.com on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 01:14:35PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 01:14:35PM -0500, Russell A. Khurshudian wrote: > When i use fetchmail to get the mail from my ISPs mail server it says that > it receives the mail and flushes it. When i check /var/mail/user there is no > mail. > > Contents of my .fetchmailrc > > poll pop.host.com protocol POP3 username username is "login name" password > mypass smtpname username@host.com smtphost smtp.host.com Try this: poll pop.host.com protocol POP3 username "pop username" password "pop password" user "pop username" is "local username" here; Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message