From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 19:14: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.aracnet.com (mail3.aracnet.com [216.99.193.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A7AF37B8EE for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 19:13:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail3.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA21692; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 19:14:02 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id TAA22875; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 19:13:59 -0700 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 19:13:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Allan Peak Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail In-Reply-To: <20000809020211.25297.qmail@web1605.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I want to copy my mail from my Yahoo account to my > local machine. I tried typing fetchmail -u apeak_2000 > mail.yahoo.com, and it asked for my password and after > I typed it in it just seemed to freeze. How long did you let it sit? Fetchmail frequently seems to freeze when it's downloading, there isn't any kind of progression bar or anything. If anyhting it should have timed out. Did you check top to see if it was using any resources, or was it static there? Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message