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
^^^^^
Use chmod instead?
>
> rhino:~# ls -al .fetchmailrc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 164 Jul 12 15:51 .fetchmailrc
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
>
Mike
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