Re: Fetchmailrc--parse error

[Gary Turner <kk5st@sbcglobal.net>]

Shyamal Prasad wrote:

>    "Gary" == Gary Turner <kk5st@sbcglobal.net> writes:
>
>    Gary> poll pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.net proto POP3
>    Gary>   user "kk5st@sbcglobal.net", with password "secret"
>    Gary>   is "gt" here
>    Gary> auth
>
>Hmm....usually I write 'user user@host there with password..." while
>your file is missing the word 'there' and has a comma instead. Perhaps
>that is the problem. Admittedly the comma may work as well as the word
>'there'... fetchmailrc is just so flexibile it drives you crazy ;-)

This seems to be OK.  Basically I just copied from the manual.

>Also, I don't use 'auth' and it works fine. I use the same POP server
>as you are trying to use.

Dropping the "auth" did the job on syntax.  Funny, I added it because I
was getting connection refused--host unknown.  That error has not
returned (yet).  Now I'm back to "couldn'y find canonical DNS name for
pop.sbc... normal termination, status 11"  From the manual:

11 Fatal DNS error. Fetchmail encountered an error while performing a
DNS lookup at startup and could not proceed.

What's the cure here?  I did check, and found that one of the DNS
servers for sbc has changed, so I changed /etc/resolv.conf to no avail.
Any hints?  Did you have a prob?



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