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Re: upgrading from popclient to fetchmail in 1.3



On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> I recently upgraded to 1.3 and replaced popclient with fetchmail.  When I
> try to run fetchmail, my ISP is connected and when attempting to retrieve
> mail, I get the error message:
> 
> reading message 1 (2679 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.primenet.com
> 
> here is my ~/.fetchmailrc file:
> 
> poll pop.primenet.com proto pop3 user USERNAME pass PASSWORD

try adding _ is USERNAME here _ like this

poll pop.primenet.com proto pop3 user USERNAME pass PASSWORD is USERNAME here

> 
> ----
> 
> I don't understand the smtp error message.  I am using the default smail
> installation as my MDA.
> 
> Any suggestions are appreciated.



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