On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:17:37AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > 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? Can 'host' resolve the hostname correctly? -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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