Re: fetchmail woes

["Patrick Kirk" <patrick@kirks.net>]

Thanks.  That worked but the darn thing still won't work.  Even though
"patrick" is my login account I get the following errer

rhino:~# fetchmail
3 messages for maxy36 at pop.dial.pipex.com (52287 octets).
reading message 1 of 3 (29367 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like
rec
ipient address `patrick@localhost'
fetchmail: can't even send to patrick!
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.dial.pipex.com
fetchmail: Query status=10
rhino:~#

I have tried patrick@rhino, postmaster, postmaster@rhino and a few other
variants to no avail.

All advice appreciated.

Patrick


----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>
To: Patrick Kirk <patrick@kirks.net>
Cc: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: fetchmail woes


> On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 03:15:57PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > After a heavy couple of hours reading man fetchmail I came up with this
> > .fetchmailrc:
> >
> > set postmaster "patrick"
> > poll pop.dial.pipex.com with proto POP3
> >        user "maxy36" there with password "ngookich" is patrick here
options
> > fetchall
> > warnings 3600
> >
> > But I get this message when I try to run it.
> >
> > rhino:~# fetchmail
> > File /root/.fetchmailrc must have no more than -rwx--x--- (0710)
> > permissions.
> >
> > Also, after chown 0710 I get
> >
> > rhino:~# ls -al .fetchmailrc
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          164 Jul 12 15:51 .fetchmailrc
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
> chmod, not chown
>
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