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
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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