Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 19:35:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: Marco Molteni <molter@logic.it> To: "Christopher J. Booth" <cbooth@onyx.interactive.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fetchmail Dot rc File? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971016193116.689C-100000@dumbwinter.logic.it> In-Reply-To: <b06bdada01021004eed6@[208.192.234.103]>
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On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Christopher J. Booth wrote:
> I have also tried the following as my ~/.fetchmailrc file:
>
> server mail.interactive.net protocol pop3 username MYUSERNAME
> password MYPASSWORD
>
> but under this .fetchmailrc I get the following errors:
>
> .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Unknown error: -1
Seems that you are not running a mailer (eg sendmail or qmail) on
your local machine. If you don't want to set it up just to use
fetchmail, you can use the older popclient, that doesn't require a
local mailer.
Marco Molteni
Computer Science student at the Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy.
"Whuffo you jump out of them airplanes?"
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