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Re: Having trouble with fetchmail...



On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 05:11:10AM +0100, Jonathan Lupa wrote:

> -- When I run fetchmail (as jjlupa) it just sort of hangs there.  I didn't
> see any messages to the terminal, to /var/log/messages or to
> /var/log/syslog.

Run with the -v option and fetchmail will tell you what it's doing (and
IIRC log even more detail to /var/log/mail.log).

> set postmaster "jjlupa"
> set daemon 500
> poll mail.jamdata.net with proto POP3
>        user "jjlupa" there with password "Efil!Sucks" is jjlupa here options
> fetchall

I assume that password is not your real password?  In any case, that
seems like it should work.  

-- 
Mark Brown  mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk   (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
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