RE: [Sheflug] Fetchmail (again)

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

you could also do worse than running "fetchmailconf" in an X session - graphical setup proggy.

On Tuesday, June 20, 2000 11:25 AM, Harvey Kelly [SMTP:harvey [at] kelly.uklinux.net] wrote:
> 
> 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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