Re: upgrading from popclient to fetchmail in 1.3
> 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
>
Is your local login name nielsen? If not, you will need to tell fetchmail what user to
deliver the mail to. My ISP login is robmacw and my local login is rob, so you probably
need to change your something like mine:
poll mail.cl-sys.com proto pop3:
user robmacw, with password notonyourlife
is rob here and wants mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f -";
The stuff after the "and" is probably unecessary until you get fetchmail working.
Try it out. If you need more help, just ask.
Later
Rob
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>
> I don't understand the smtp error message. I am using the default smail
> installation as my MDA.
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Bob
>
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> Bob Nielsen Internet: nielsen@primenet.com
> Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: w6swe@w6swe.ampr.org
> AX.25: w6swe@wb7tls.az.usa.noam
> http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
>
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