From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from uq.net.au(fox.uq.net.au[203.101.255.1]) (1602 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 07:07:18 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from data.home (mail@dyn-23-53.dialin.uq.net.au [203.100.23.53]) by uq.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA16650 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 22:07:15 +1000 (GMT+1000) Received: from geoff by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14eyRI-0001gd-00; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 22:07:08 +1000 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 22:07:08 +1000 (EST) From: Geoff Shang To: Subject: Re: setting up email for linux. In-Reply-To: <003001c0b05a$f5103840$1800a8c0@Shaun> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Hi: I've never seen the interface spec before. This might cause problems later depending on how you do net access, so you might want to remove it or at least comment it out. I was going to repost detailed instructions on how to do the fetchmail thing, but you seem to have it sussed already (well done). The permissions thing is to safeguard your password. Fetchmail will not permit you to have a .fetchmailrc file that is readable by anyone else. So you will want read and write access for you and no-one else. The easiest way to do this is: chmod 600 .fetchmailrc You could also do: chmod u=rw,go= .fetchmailrc if you find that clearer. Either way, it gives the user read/write access and the group and other users no access. You need these set or fetchmail will refuse to run. Geoff.