From: Ross Lynch (kernel at domain student.nuigalway.ie)
Date: Tue 25 Jul 2000 - 13:03:21 IST
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Jason A. Corcoran. wrote:
Why not use a simple .fetchmailrc file?
Something like:
poll mail1.eircom.net proto pop3
user corcoraj there with pass [pass] is [localuser] here
Then just run fetchmail. Maybe with -d [no_of_seconds] to run it as daemon
every X seconds.
Ross.
> I normally download my mail using kmail or some
> such mail client. I was wondering if I am on a
> Linux box at work and I want to us fetch mail.
> What param's would I pass it to down from say a
> eircom mail account. I tried
>
> fetchmail -p POP3 -u corcoraj -s mail2.eircom.net
>
> and Got ...
>
> Enter password for corcoraj at domain mail2.eircom.net:
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching
> from mail2.eircom.net
> fetchmail: Query status=SMTP
-- Ross Lynch 086 4039249 ross at domain onesphere.net kernel at domain student.nuigalway.ie
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