Re: Fetchmail lacks diplomacy skills
Hmmm. Based on your .fetchmailrc contents you don't have the password set.
Do you have a password for your user mark?
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Thursday, December 10, 1998 9:41 AM
Subject: Fetchmail lacks diplomacy skills
>I am trying to set up fetchmail to extract my email from university to my
>home machine. It seems to start out okay, but falls down along the
>way. Here's what I get:
>
># fetchmail
>Enter password for mark@adam.ist.flinders.edu.au:
>fetchmail: 4 messages (3 seen) for mark at adam.ist.flinders.edu.au.
>fetchmail: skipping message 1 not flushed
>fetchmail: skipping message 2 not flushed
>fetchmail: skipping message 3 not flushed
>fetchmail: reading message 4 of 4 (2413 bytes) (log message incomplete)
>fetchmail: timeout after 60 seconds.
>fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from
>adam.ist.flinders.edu.au
>
>Any ideas of what is wrong? Or how I could find out?
>
>My .fetchmailrc is as follows:
>
>set logfile = "/var/log/fetchmail"
>poll adam.ist.flinders.edu.au timeout 60 protocol pop3 user mark
>
>(And by the way, /var/log/fetchmail is empty.)
>
>Thanks for your help,
>
>Mark.
>
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>____/~~\______/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________
>__________________________________________________________________________
> "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"
>
>
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