From my home dir, I can run fetchmail as well (~/.fetchmailrc). That looks like:

Rogier Maas wrote: I use a global /etc/fetchmailrc running as root (from ip-up) looks like: poll mail.foo.net protocol POP3 no dns username foo password bar to brauki here poll mail.bar.de protocol POP3 no dns username bar password foo to brauki here The rights must be "600" on that file for root. It's called fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc poll mail.foo.net protocol POP3 username foo password bar poll mail.bar.de protocol POP3 username bar password foo rights are 600 for my user and calling "fetchmail" starts it. Don't remember for what reason I used "no dns", but both version work. Hmm. Does fetchmail require procmail?? could it be that too?? Juergen

I did that too, so I started just 'fetchmail'. The outcome is the same.

Rogier

"Victor R. Cardona" wrote:

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Just a thought, but could you put that in a .fetchmailrc file in your home directory?

Victor

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Rogier Maas wrote:

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Hi,

I want to get my mail with fetchmail so that I can retrieve it from the host I'm getting it with. I've put this configuration in fetchmail.conf:

defaults proto pop3 user someuser poll mail.provider.net pass mypassword

Whenever I start fetchmail -f fetchmail.conf, I get this:

fetchmail: POP3 connection to mail.provider.net failed: host is unknown fetchmail: Query status=2

Can anybody lend me a hand with this?

Thanks!

Rogier

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I created /etc/fetchmailrc and chmodded it to 600: poll mail.provider.net protocol POP3 no dns username my_user password my_passwd to localuser here then I ran fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc and this came up: fetchmail: POP3 connection to mail.guldennet.nl failed: host is unknown fetchmail: Query status=2 Now everybody thinks I have a problem which I haven't. My host _is_ correctly set up. DNS is working, I have a static IP, noone is filtering anything, I can ping, telnet AND POP3 to the mailserver with for example netscape. I get the feeling fetchmail is broken. No matter what host I give to it, it fails always. Rogier Juergen Braukmann wrote:

Rogier Maas wrote:

I use a global /etc/fetchmailrc running as root (from ip-up) looks like: poll mail.foo.net protocol POP3 no dns username foo password bar to brauki here poll mail.bar.de protocol POP3 no dns username bar password foo to brauki here

The rights must be "600" on that file for root. It's called fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc

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From my home dir, I can run fetchmail as well (~/.fetchmailrc). That looks like: poll mail.foo.net protocol POP3 username foo password bar poll mail.bar.de protocol POP3 username bar password foo

rights are 600 for my user and calling "fetchmail" starts it. Don't remember for what reason I used "no dns", but both version work. Hmm. Does fetchmail require procmail?? could it be that too??

Juergen

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