OT: fetchmail problem

Thu Dec 7 16:47:01 EST 2000

Actually, Pine *does* support the inferior pop3 protocol.  Just put the
parameter /pop3 after the name of the mailserver just to the left of the
right brace.  For example: {pop1.prserv.net/pop3}.  Another handy
parameter
is the /user parm that can be put at the end of the above mentioned.  EG
{pop1.prserv.net/pop3/user=wacker}.  That way, you'll only be prompted for
the password.

          HTH.
        Bill in Denver

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Jacob Schmude wrote:

> HI
>      Chuck, this just started to happen. I've never had a problem with
> fetchmail before, so I'm thinking maybe it's sendmail doing it, but I'm
> not sure why. As you probably know, fetchmail does only part of the
> delivery. It delivers it to sendmail, which then gives it to the user. I
> know sendmail can send, as I just did it to report my fetchmail trouble
> (I.e. I do not use my ISP's smtp server), because sendmail is quicker.
>
>      As far as my plan b goes, here's how you do it:
> Go into pine's configuration menu and find the variable for inbox-path.
> Set this to:
> {mailserver.somewhere.net}INBOX
> Note the braces, these are required around the mail server name. INBOX is
> also in all caps and there's no space between it and the mailserver, only
> a closing brace. Pine will then, when it starts, open the remote inbox and
> ask you for you're username and password. After that, you're actually
> acting on your remote inbox, mail is not locally downloaded. It's worth
> noting that pop3 is NOT supported. Only the IMAP protocol, which is
> faster anyway. My guess is that you use pop3 because you use nettamer. I'm
> probably
> lucky, my ISP happens to allow you to use both.
>
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
>
> > Jacob -
> >
> > rereading your message I am not sure if your problem is a transient one
> > like mine, happening only rarely, or if you have never been able to get
> > fetchmail to work for you.
>
>
>
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