Re: fetchmail authorization failure
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 08:12:24AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> Thanks, you led me to the solution.
>
> Running $ fetchmail -cv told me that my POP3 account was inactive, and
> when I called my provider (Web.com), they informed me that the value
> of the poll line in .fetchmailrc had to be changed now to my domain
> name rather than the server name.
>
> I suspect they alerted me to the change by sending me an HTML message,
> which I tend not to read because I use a text-based mail reader.
>
I use mutt and I have no problem reading html-based email with mutt
using w3m or similar to translate the email to text. Maybe you filter
html email as spam?
-K
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