From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 19:20:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ogopogo.flash.net (ogopogo.flash.net [209.30.2.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4AC837B8EE for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 19:20:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wotan@fosburgh.org) Received: from gw.fosburgh.org (p94.amax12.dialup.hou1.flash.net [209.30.162.94]) by ogopogo.flash.net (8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA12608; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:20:06 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (wotan@localhost) by gw.fosburgh.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA78493; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:20:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from wotan@ns.fosburgh.org) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:20:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan E Fosburgh Reply-To: fosburgh@flash.net To: Rick Hamell Cc: Allan Peak , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail In-Reply-To: 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 On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > 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? > Huh? You must be running a different fetchmail than I am, because mine does do status *if you are not running it in daemon mode*. Check to make sure mail.yahoo.com is the correct address from which to download your email, that may not have a pop server running. Also, if you are using X you might look into fetchmailconf to make sure you have it set up right. Jonathan Fosburgh Open Systems MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX Home Page: http://www.fosburgh.org Manager, FreeBSD Webring: http://www.fosburgh.org/computer/freebsdring.html ICQ: 32742908 AIM: Namthorien To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message