Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 20:27:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Allan Peak <apeak_2000@yahoo.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchmail Message-ID: <20000809032749.21944.qmail@web1610.mail.yahoo.com>
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This time I typed fetchmail -u apeak_2000
pop.mail.yahoo.com and it said something about a
"socket error" and it seemed to copy 1 or 2 messages
but gave me a bunch of lines that said "skipping
message xxx not flushed". It recognized how many
messages I had but only copied the latest.
Allan
--- Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> wrote:
> In the last episode (Aug 08), Allan Peak said:
> > 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.
>
> Please see
> http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-03.html
> for
> instructions on getting Yahoo mail via pop3.
> mail.yahoo.com is for
> webmail only.
>
> --
> Dan Nelson
> dnelson@emsphone.com
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