Nori Heikkinen wrote:
all of a sudden i need to be using secure fetchmail, which i should have been to begin with, but didn't really realize i wasn't. i apt-got fetchmail-ssl, and changed the POP3 line to IMAP in my .fetchmailrc but can't retrieve mail from my server at all. any tipsor places on where the FM is to R?thanks, </nori>
Whether or not you use secure fetchmail is independent of whether you use IMAP or POP3... I use secure POP3 with fetchmail which I set up with fetchmailconf, and my stanza is:
poll techhouse.org with proto POP3 user 'pretzalz' there with password '*******' is 'pretzalz' here ssl Maybe you just need to add the ssl at the end?