Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 20:13:16 +0200 From: mouss <usebsd@free.fr> To: Allan Peak <apeak_2000@yahoo.com>, Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchmail Message-ID: <4.3.0.20000809201005.0250cdc0@pop.free.fr> In-Reply-To: <20000809025030.26728.qmail@web1608.mail.yahoo.com>
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you probably forgot to configure it. by default, it will use IMAP,
which indeed wil timeout, since I doubt yahoo mail is accessible
this way. try:
echo yourpassword | fetchmail -c -p pop3 yourpopserver -u yourself
('-c will just check whether you have mail or not).
At 19:50 08/08/00 -0700, Allan Peak wrote:
>I tried again and let it run longer. This time it
>said "timeout after 300 seconds waiting to connect"
> Allan
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