OT: fetchmail problem

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Bill -

Many thanks for these tips. One more reason why I prefer email to the
reflector - I have saved your message and Jacob's earlier one and can
consult them when I am ready to give it a whirl! <g>

Chuck


On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote:

> 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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