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Date:      Thu, 7 Mar 2002 20:35:46 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom Kersten <tomkersten98@yahoo.com>
To:        Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com>, Andreas Ntaflos <ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net>, bill@wiliweld.com
Cc:        FBSDQ <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Is fetchmail with Cox possible?????
Message-ID:  <20020308043546.67378.qmail@web10005.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOOEAPCKAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>

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--- Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com> wrote:
> Run a test  fetchmail -v -c   -c means do nothing
> but check isp mail account
> and return count of number of email.  Be sure to
> remove the mda stuff from
> the poll statement in .fetchmailrc first.  If that
> works the put the mda
> back as mda "/user/local/sbin/sendmail"  and this
> time use fetchmail -v -k
> And no set daemon statement in .fetchmailrc.  Let me
> know the results.
> 
> 

Everyone who is helping,

OK...we are getting somewhere...just a little comment
will fix this one i think....here is my *new*
~/.fetchmailrc file:
******************start
#set daemon 300

poll smtp.west.cox.net with protocol POP3:

user thomas@whitespur.com there is thomas here 
#mda "/usr/local/bin/procmail -f - "
******************finish

Now, this is what happens when I run fetchmail -v -c:

*******start



And this is what happens when I run fetchmail -a
********start

thomas@www:/home/thomas> fetchmail -v -c
Enter password for
thomas@mydomain.com@smtp.west.cox.net: 
fetchmail: 5.9.6 querying smtp.west.cox.net (protocol
POP3) at Thu Mar  7 21:17:52 2002: poll started
fetchmail: 5.9.6 querying smtp.west.cox.net (protocol
POP3) at Thu Mar  7 21:19:07 2002: poll completed
fetchmail: normal termination, status 2

*****finish

Whohooo!! It looks (to me) like it is returning 2
messages, which is the number of messages in my
mailbox. But...when I type "mail" I get "no mail for
thomas".....I don't know, but I am assuming this is
because nothing is delivering it to me (ie-sendmail,
procmail, etc)...but this is new territory for me.
Now, I am going to change back to using "sendmail"
because it says that procmail is not always reliable
in the man page...I need all the reliability I can
get...so here is my *new new* ~/.fetchmailrc file....

*************start********
#set daemon 300

poll smtp.west.cox.net with protocol POP3:

user thomas@whitespur.com there is thomas here
mda "/usr/sbin/sendmail"

***********finish**********

NOTE-I have tried the mda line w/ & w/o the quotes
around the path...same results

Now I try this....

********start********
thomas@www:/home/thomas> fetchmail -v -a --all
Enter password for
thomas@mydomain.com@smtp.west.cox.net: 
fetchmail: 5.9.6 querying smtp.west.cox.net (protocol
POP3) at Thu Mar  7 21:32:04 2002: poll started
fetchmail: 5.9.6 querying smtp.west.cox.net (protocol
POP3) at Thu Mar  7 21:33:19 2002: poll completed
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: normal termination, status 2
********finish*******


It appears to be successful (to me), but when I type
"mail" again....still "no mail for thomas"---where is
it going???? How do I deliver it??? This has to be the
last leg? Or maybe we have solve nothing....let me
know........


Thomas





> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On
> Behalf Of Andreas Ntaflos
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 5:45 PM
> To: Tom Kersten
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Is fetchmail with Cox possible?????
> 
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:31:40PM -0800, Tom
> Kersten wrote:
> >
> > --- Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> wrote:
> > > At Thu, 7 Mar 2002 it looks like Tom Kersten
> > > composed:
> > >
> > > > set daemon 300
> > > >
> > > > poll smtp.west.cox.net with protocol POP3:
> > > >
> > > > user thomas@mydomain.com there is thomas here
> mda
> > > > "/usr/local/bin/procmail -f - "
> > > >
> >
> > I didn't have procmail
> > installed........wow........anyway, that didn't
> seem
> > to solve my problem. I was using sendmail before
> as my
> > mda...which is better???? also, any other ideas? I
> > just can't seem to figure this out...
> >
> > thomas
> >
**************deleted for redundancy avoidance*******

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