Re: Setting up the mail program
--- Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:17:28AM -0800, Joris
> Huizer wrote:
> > Allright I've got sending mail working... but it
> > doesn't look like email is received - I've
> installed
> > mutt now (got to get used to the view)
>
> You need to install fetchmail.
>
> > Were are the settings for receiving mail ?? Please
> > tell which configuration to run and everything !
>
Sorry - I never meant to write it like that it really
looks stupid I have to agree.
> As I emailed on Wednesday, you need to go install
> fetchmail, and look
> at the documentation in /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/.
> At the very least,
> follow the threads you start...
>
Sometimes the mail list is so filled I just check
wether there are messages on my questions (or stuff I
might know an answer on) and just remove the rest - I
must have missed you're mail when I did that - sorry
for that.
Now, on to the question: I installed fetchmail but I'm
doing something wrong
I added the /etc/fetchmailrc file I hope you can point
out what's going wrong - I copied from the example
file and added the mail server but it must be I don't
understand what's the correct syntax - they write a
few lines in a comment but I don't really understand
Thanks in advance,
Joris
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/etc/fetchmailrc:
# /etc/fetchmailrc for system-wide daemon mode
# This file must be chmod 0600, owner fetchmail
# Daemon configuration
# These two are set in /etc/default/fetchmail
set daemon 300 # Pool every 5 minutes
set syslog # log through syslog facility
set no bouncemail # avoid loss on 4xx errors
# on the other hand, 5xx errors get
# more dangerous...
##########################################################################
# Hosts to pool
##########################################################################
# Defaults
===============================================================
# Set antispam to -1, since it is far safer to use
that together with
# no bouncemail
defaults:
antispam -1
batchlimit 100
#poll foo.bar.org with protocol pop3
# user baka there is localbaka here;
poll smtp.planet.nl with protocol smtp
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