From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 11: 8:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nettoll.com (matrix.fr.uu.net [212.155.143.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECFB037BE95 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 11:08:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from usebsd@free.fr) Received: by smtp.nettoll.com; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 20:03:08 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <4.3.0.20000809201005.0250cdc0@pop.free.fr> X-Sender: usebsd@pop.free.fr X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 20:13:16 +0200 To: Allan Peak , Rick Hamell From: mouss Subject: Re: fetchmail Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20000809025030.26728.qmail@web1608.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message