From: David Csercsics <kajarii@shaw.ca>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: E-Mail Trials
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 10:26:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20011207102529.009d12f0@shawmail> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002301c17f24$87d64000$e08caad8@tds.net>
Have you tried mutt? It doesn't require you to use fetchmail and it is
a more customizable and nicer mailer to work with than pine, but that is
just my opinion.
At 08:39 AM 12/7/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello,
>Here is what I tried to get my e-mail up. I haven't tried everything that
>was suggested yet, because until e-mail is working i can only run Linux at
>night.
>The command
>fetchmail -v -u director@chpi02 mail.voyagerhosting.net
>produced first a reqauest for my password. then it tried the various
>protocols and settled on pop3. Then it said "invalid user name or password".
>Next I tried
>fetchmail -v -u director chpi.org
>This seemed to work better, so I tried it without the -v, then ran pine. But
>there were no messages. I assome that fetchmail knows where to put messages
>so Pine can find them.
>Next, I wrote a .fetchmailrc file with the lines
>poll chpi.org proto pop3
>user director pass *))&&^^
>then
>fetchmail -v
>first said it was querying the server using pop3 then it said
>status=2 (SOCKET)
>Running fetchmail without the -v again produced no messages. This address
>gets a lot of mail, so there should have been some. the -c option also
>produced nothing.
>I also have a yahoo e-mail address for monitoring mailing lists. When I
>typed
>fetchmail -v -u techbrl mail.yahoo.com
>It asked for my password, then tried IMAP, then just sat there until I
>pressed control+c.
>I hope these details put us closer to the solution to the problem. Your help
>is very much appreciated.
>John
>
>
>Computers to Help People, Inc.
>http://www.chpi.org
>825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703
>
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