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Re: fetchmail / s10/10.0.2.15



I tried changing to 'fetchmail --quit' but got an error and fetchmail
wouldn't work.  So I changed the daemon number to 3 seconds.  I still get
nothing.  I see nothing in my "/var/spool/mail/fkent" permisions are:
-rw-rw---- 1 fkent mail

It seems to me if I use the -v flag such as
"fetchmail -v mail.inebraska.com" I should at least see something (the man
page says it writes to stderr) at the command line.  I also tried
"fetchmail -k mail.inebraska.com" to pull the mail off the server but it
doesn't.  The mail is still there.  So I don't know.  Maybe if I had another
1000 lines of man page I could figure this fetchmail stuff out:)
Thanks,
kent


----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Werner <reznaeous@earthlink.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: fetchmail / s10/10.0.2.15


> On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 08:54:20PM -0500, ktb wrote:
> > I don't think the last message I sent went through due to me
> > changing some things in the rc files.  Ayway I will start over.
> >
> > I changed the "poll" section in .fetchmailrc and now I get:
> > $ fetchmail -c mail.inebraska.com
> > 8 messages for xyf at mail.inebraska.com (17181 octets).
> >
> > So it seems I am closer once again but when I try:
> > $ fetchmail -av mail.inebraska.com to get my mail all I get
> > back is a command line.
>
> Which is, actually, what I think you should be getting ...
>
> > Here is what I have in .fetchmailrc:
> > ------------------------------------
> > # This is what the developer's .fetchmailrc looks like:
> >
> > set daemon 300  # Poll at 5-minute intervals
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ... because of this line.
>
> > defaults
> > #       interface "sl0/10.0.2.15"       # SLIRP standard address
> > #       user esr is esr fetchmail-friends magic-numbers here
> >         fetchall
> >
> > # Use this for production
> > poll mail.inebraska.com protocol POP3:
> >     user xyf
> >     password xxxxxxxxxxx;
> > ---------------------------------
>
> I'd bet that if you run 'ps aux | grep fetchmail' you will see a line
> something similar to:
> mike     17617  0.0  1.1  1676  752 ?        S    20:48   0:00
fetchmail -d 120
>
> (Note: I run fetchmail a bit differently than you, so it'll most likely
> look a bit different on your system.)
>
> The line I marked in your .fetchmailrc says to run fetchmail in daemon
> mode.  It won't do anything noticeable right off.  But every 5 minutes
> it'll go check every mail server defined in your .fetchmailrc and grab
> all of the mail from those servers.  That mail will then end up in your
> incoming spool, unless you have done something odd with exim.
>
> To get something more like what you are probably expecting, comment
> out the line that says 'set daemon 300', do 'fetchmail --quit', and
> then try again.
> --
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