Re: [Sheflug] Fetchmail

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet Richard Ibbotson uttered these words of wisdom:
> Hi
> 
> Now that my own network is working once again I thought I might have a 
> go at Pine once again.  Tried Mutt and couldn't get on with it.

I use exmh in X which is a front end to MH (or nmh). MH is quite nice if
you like the command line, though it is a bit of a learning curve (I've
only recently started using nmh from the command line despite using exmh
for years). Instead of one monolithic program, it's lots of seperate programs
like comp (compse), repl (reply), next, prev, show, flist, rmm etc. It also
stores each mail message in a seperate file, which makes it nice to grep
for a particular message.

But anyhow, I digress...

> I've written a .fetchmailrc file and set permissions on it in the way 
> that I'm supposed to ...
> 
> poll  mail.zetnet.co.uk  protocol POP3     username   "richard"   
> password   "mydogsmells"
> 

Try shifting password in a tab or a space, so you have:

poll server proto pop3 username richard
	password mydogsmells

I'm trying to work out if this is what fetchmail expects. Certainly all the
multiline examples in the man page tab in by one or more the second and
all subsequent lines.

You may also need to move username onto line 2, so you have the username and
password on the same line, but I don't think that'll do much.

I'm just playing with my .fetchmailrc and actually removing whitespace etc
doesn't seem to be affecting fetchmail's operation (I have version
5.8.6+SSL+NLS - built from source). So I'm a little confused. *think*

Unless 5.9's being a little different on how its parsing .fetchmailrc, but
that'd be a little silly. But stranger things have happened I'm sure.

Okay - something else to try; what happens if you type "fetchmail -V" - it
should return version and configuration information. Lines 3 or 4 should say
where its reading config from...I'm suspecting it isn't even reading your
$HOME/.fetchmailrc, but this'll confirm it. Also try "fetchmail -f <full path
of .fetchmailrc>" ... viz, specifying fetchmailrc on the command line.

Might give an idea or two.

Chris...


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