From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 7 2:52:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from neptune.twrol.com (ras1-19.wizrealm.com [208.153.237.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FEBE1522D for ; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 02:52:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dionysos3@crosswinds.net) Received: from localhost (dionysos3@localhost) by neptune.twrol.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA03751; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 02:04:40 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from dionysos3@crosswinds.net) X-Authentication-Warning: neptune.twrol.com: dionysos3 owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 02:04:39 -0600 (MDT) From: "James R. Shrenk" X-Sender: dionysos3@neptune.twrol.com To: Ghulam Dastgir Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fetchmail problems In-Reply-To: <01beb0b4$b5537520$LocalHost@signup> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try adding "-p POP3" before the -u flag. It looks like mail.force9.net doesn't respond to IMAP requests (which seems to be what fetchmail often defaults to). James On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Ghulam Dastgir wrote: > I am having problems with my fetchmail. After the PPP link's up I type: > > $ fetchmail -u ghulam mail.force9.net > > Then I get the password prompt, after which the following output: > > fetchmail: IMAP connection to mail.force9.net failed: local error: Connection refused > fetchmail: 1 message for ghulam at mail.force9.net > reading message 1 of 1 (2075 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk failed: Operation timed out > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching mail from mail.force9.net > > Any ideas what the problem is here?? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message