RE: fetchmail with ssh
... if it is a mail server name problem, you can get the server's name
through a whois query ..
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric G . Miller [mailto:egm2@jps.net]
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 12:16 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: fetchmail with ssh
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 09:02:01PM -0700, wtstacey wrote:
> I'd like to get fetchmail to retrieve my mail after I login to my ppp
> account, so I can read mail offline. I tried to get fetchmail to pop my
> mail (without ssh) with this rc file:
>
> set daemon 300 # Poll at 5-minute intervals
> set logfile .fetchlog
>
> poll hostname.org protocol POP3 username USERNAME password XXXXXXXX
^^^^^^^^^^^^ I take it this is not the real mail server.
> but I get this in the log file:
>
> fetchmail: starting fetchmail 4.6.4 daemon
> fetchmail: 4.6.4 querying hostname.org (protocol POP3) at Sun Jun 4
> 16:51:08 2000
> fetchmail: fetchmail: POP3 connection to hostname.org failed: Connection
> refused
> fetchmail: terminated with signal 15
My guess is you have the wrong mail server name. A typical ISP might
have a server named 'mail.isp.net'. If that's not it, check your
username and password and make sure ~/.fetchmailrc is chmod 600.
My .fetchmail looks like:
#-----------------------------
poll mail.isp.net
protocol pop3
timeout 60
username <there> is $USER here
password <get your own!>
#-----------------------------
<snip ???>
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