[plug] fetchmail

[russ]

Try:
     fetchmailconf

On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, stephen. wrote:
> Well i give up  -ive spent one houre trying to figure
> out how to use fetchmail to get my mail from my UCC account
> to my Linux machine at home - ime totally baffled - manual pages 
> for fetchmail are not helping either.
> below is the output from running fetchmail 
> 
> > fetchmail -u steve -p AUTO -A 'password' ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> > Enter password for steve at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au: 
> > 23 messages (1 seen) for steve at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au.
> > skipping message 1 not flushed
> > reading message 2 of 23 (878 header octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to root at optiquest failed
> > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> > fetchmail: Query status=10
> > the end.
> 
> so what am i missing - whats going wrong 
> - my home machine is redhat 6.0 setup
> with a rebuilt kernel - is it cause ime missing some drivers ?
> or am i missing a parameter ?
> i am running fetchmail as root on my machine ( i am root on my pc)
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Regards
russ

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