On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 11:37:55AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote:
Test configuration fails with the message: "fetchmailrc:6; parse error
at 123456" where 123456 is the password for the account. From the man
page the 6 might refer to a permission problem but parse error suggests
to me that an all numeric password may not be allowed. If the latter is
the problem is there a way around this or must I have the service
provider change my password?
If you spell the Fine Manual and now about parsers you might notice that
fetchmail's fetchmailrc parser knows 4 kind a tokens:
There are four kinds of tokens: grammar keywords, numbers
(i.e. decimal digit sequences), unquoted strings, and
quoted strings. A quoted string is bounded by double
quotes and may contain whitespace (and quoted digits are
treated as a string). An unquoted string is any whites-
pace-delimited token that is neither numeric, string
quoted nor contains the special characters `,', `;', `:',
or `='.
So a mere 123456 is parsed as a number where you needed a string.
Try "12345" instead (with the quotes) and all should be fine.