E-Mail Trials

E-Mail Trials

[John J. Boyer]

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

Re: E-Mail Trials

[Cheryl Homiak]

When running fetchmail without using the .fetchmailrc, I believe you can
use the -p option to tell it what protocol to use if you know for sure it
is pop3. Try the yahoo email again that way and see what happens.
Did you get the socket error before or after it read the first message.
Also you can try fetchmail -c to see if it will tell you how many messages
you have without trying to fetch them (-c is check).

Re: E-Mail Trials

[David Csercsics]

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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