From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 12 21:46:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA29502 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 May 1997 21:46:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy4.ba.best.com (root@proxy4.ba.best.com [206.184.139.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA29495 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 21:46:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsampley.vip.best.com (bsampley.vip.best.com [206.184.160.196]) by proxy4.ba.best.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id VAA11671; Mon, 12 May 1997 21:45:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 21:43:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Burton Sampley To: Glenn Johnson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail not working In-Reply-To: <3377D8C0.721E35B5@iamerica.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 12 May 1997, Glenn Johnson wrote: > I have a mysterious problem. I have been using fetchmail to retrieve my > mail for about a month. Today, it simply stopped working. At first I > thought my ISP was having problems but then I discovered that xfmail and > netscape can both access my mail server through pop3 while fetchmail can > not. I am trying to find out if my ISP changed anything. I am using > FreeBSD 2.2RELENG. Thank you. > -- > Glenn Johnson > gljohnsn@iamerica.net I've also had some weird quirkiness with fetchmail using the auto protocol detection. Try calling it w/ -p POP3 or adding 'proto POP3' (w/o the quotes) to your .fetchmailrc file. Hope this helps. Burton --- Brought to you by a 100% Micro$oft free system. You too can disinfect your system at http://www.freebsd.org E-Mail: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com Alternate E-Mail: bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu Home Page: http://www.best.com/~bsampley (permanently under construction)