From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri May 12 16:50:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from nscache2.x-treme.gr (mail1.x-treme.gr [212.120.196.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CC1137BC7A for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 16:49:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat47.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.239]) by nscache2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with ESMTP id CAA12223; Sat, 13 May 2000 02:49:46 +0300 Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e4CNntL35470; Sat, 13 May 2000 02:49:55 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 02:49:55 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Hyun Gu Kang Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting up fetchmail Message-ID: <20000513024955.A35425@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from hyunkang@uiuc.edu on Fri, May 12, 2000 at 04:10:20PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 04:10:20PM -0500, Hyun Gu Kang wrote: > I am wondering how to set up fetchmail- for some reason the fetchmailconf > program won't run even with Python installed. > > Does anyone have good ideas for doing mail in my current situation. > I get all my school mail to the school unix machines, and with Windows, i > used Eudora to use pop3 to get mail. The ~/.fetchmailrc file that I am using to fetch my mail from the campus machine called campus.host.name.gr for myself looks like: poll campus.host.name.gr proto pop3: user "myname", pass "******", is "localuser" here, fetchall, nokeep; Then, my local sendmail takes care of mail send to localuser@localhost and all works fine :) For more fetchmailrc options, see the manpage of fetchmail(1) where all the options of fetchmail are decribed in detail. Put this into a file called .fetchmailrc in your HOME directory, and edit appropriately. Then call fetchmail when you're connected to the net, as shown in: % fetchmail and watch it fetch your mail. If you want to test the ~/.fetchmailrc file, without actually fetching the mail (debugging your fetchmailrc is a good reason for doing such a thing): % fetchmail -c Ciao, Giorgos. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message