zentara wrote:
Hi, I've seen the light, and have seen what a nice package fetchmail is, and I've tried to set it up as suggested in the Offline-Mail howto.
The problem I'm having is that my password is rejected. I tried pmail also, and my isp mail server rejects the password.
Did you set up fetchmail to run everything from the commandline, or did you set up a .fetchmailrc in your home directory? I've got fetchmail set up here to pick up the mail for 5 users, so fetchmail is run as root (root never gets any mail tho:-). Also, even though you may be using only one account, if you are using the fetchmailrc (btw, the permissions does have to be set correctly or the file will be rejected). There is another file in /etc/ppp that fetchmail does look at to match your user name and password with the isp you are trying to connect with (When I first set up fetchmail, I was accessing 2 isp's with 5 email accounts, boy that was fun to set up:-)
When I send the user, it accepts, and requests the password, but the password is rejected. But it works fine with Netscape.
What may be happening is "Character translation?", sometimes, a character gets translated into another character during transmission if entered from the keyboard (that has happened to me, it went away when I set up the fetchmailrc file setup:-) -- cya l8r Leon McClatchey leonmcclatchey@homemail.com Linux User 78912 (Win95 Box) - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>