[Sheflug] Fetchmail (again)

[Harvey Kelly <nospam [at] kelly.uklinux.net>]

Dear all,

A while ago I was trying to get Fetchmail working, and did actually
for about five seconds, but can't remember how.  Yeah, I know.  Alex has
pointed me in the direction of Matthew's pages, but where for art thou
Matthew?

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Matthew John Palmer wrote:

> Place the line
> 
> poll <server> protocol <proto> user <username> pass <password> is
> <localusername> here

Okay.  My /home/harvey/.fetchmailrc at the moment:

poll mail.uklinux.net protocol POP3 username kelly password ******* is
harvey here

> I'll have a page up about this and procmail soon.

Yeah, is this a procmail thing or fetchmail?  Fetchmail can see the mail,
but either says the mail isn't flushed (whatever that means) or if I
fetchmail -v it says the... 

fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<whoever.com> BODY=etc
fetchmail: SMTP< 451 <whoever.com>... Sender domain must resolve
fetchmail: SMTP> RSET
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Reset state
 not flushed
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Sayonara
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 Lucille.Earth closing connection
fetchmail: normal termination, status 0 

Please please help.  I hate all this point n' clicking stuff
(Kmail? Urgh).  Even though I'm an arch-newbie, the command-line
seems so much easier/more flexible.

Like I said, a month or so ago I did get fetchmail to work (once), but
then life got in the way, you know how it is, and I cannot for the life of
me remember what I did, or how it was set up.

Thanks

Harvey









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