From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 19:23:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2a.ispchannel.com (smtp.ispchannel.com [24.142.63.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 502C937B958 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 19:23:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vandena@ispchannel.com) Received: from cm-208-170-220-127.gulfbreeze.mediacom.ispchannel.com ([208.170.220.127]) by smtp2a.ispchannel.com (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 7d3764cdaca754bf8ae20adf0db2aa60) with ESMTP id <20000809022525.OELI382.smtp2a@cm-208-170-220-127.gulfbreeze.mediacom.ispchannel.com>; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 19:25:25 -0700 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:23:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Steve Van Den Akker 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 You may want to consult the archives of this maillist. I recall seeing something on the correct parameters for yahoo and hotmail accounts. Also, just curious...did it eventually time out or just hang? """ (o o) ====================oOO==(_)==OOo======================= ____ _ / ___|| |_ _____ _____ : Steve Van Den Akker \___ \| __/ _ \ \ / / _ \ : vandena@ispchannel.com ___) | || __/\ V / __/ : www.nwf-soccer.com |____/ \__\___| \_/ \___| : ======================================================== "Rescued from Micro$oft...Proponet of FreeBSD." On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Allan Peak 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. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. > http://invites.yahoo.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message