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Old 03-31-2001, 11:54 PM   #1
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Okay,

I have sendmail 8.11.0 running on Redhat 7. This is working fine. I've been trying to get fetchmail to work. I have version 5.5.0 setup. I've have the .fetchmailrc file configured to query my yahoo account as follows:
poll mail.yahoo.com protocol pop3 user "myusername" password "mypassword"


So now everytime I use the fetchmail command to test it, it times out. Am I doing something wrong here?
 
Old 04-14-2001, 03:56 PM   #2
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It's been a couple of weeks, but if anyone knows if anything is wrong with the code above please let me know. I still haven't been able to get fetchmail to work.

Thanks.
 
Old 04-14-2001, 04:15 PM   #3
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Try running fetchmail with "-v -v" which will print debugging info to stderr.
 
Old 04-15-2001, 03:43 AM   #4
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the above looks fine but you need to tell it what you user name on the local host is called. by adding : is user 'user' here

also is should be username not user.

it might be "" enclosing it but i can never remember. there are lots of examples at the end of the man page for fetchmail which is useful.

try doing 'fetchmail --check' and see if it looks for the number of messages you have. if it tells you, then you know that it is passing authorisation and there is something else with it.

if that was confusing here's an complete version (fill in relevant information):


poll mail.yahoo.com protocol pop3 username "myusername" password "mypassword" is user "user" here
options keep #makes sure that while you're testing, no mails get deleted (that;s the theory neway)

hope that helps. i personally spent ages trying to get the bugger to work

Alex

 
Old 04-15-2001, 08:56 AM   #5
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Thanks for your help. I'll give it a try.
 
  


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