From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 8 0: 8: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mashie.force9.net (mashie.force9.net [195.166.128.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 980E414EF9 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 00:07:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk) Received: (qmail 20421 invoked from network); 8 Jun 1999 07:07:05 -0000 Received: from mayfly.plus.net.uk (HELO mayfly.force9.net) (195.166.128.28) by mashie.force9.net with SMTP; 8 Jun 1999 07:07:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 17996 invoked from network); 8 Jun 1999 07:12:31 -0000 Received: from 137.hiper02.shef.dialup.force9.net (HELO signup) (195.166.144.137) by mayfly.plus.net.uk with SMTP; 8 Jun 1999 07:12:31 -0000 From: "Ghulam Dastgir" To: Subject: Fetchmail problems Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 08:59:58 -0700 Message-ID: <01beb1c7$f55eedc0$LocalHost@signup> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am still having problems with fetchmail. Now after typing: $ fetchmail -p POP3 -u ghulam mail.force9.net Fetchmail says that there are x messages waiting for me. It tries downloading but then times out with: fetchmail: SMTP connect to voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk failed: Operation timed out fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.force9.net What could be causing this? Thanks, Ghulam -----Original Message----- From: James R. Shrenk To: Ghulam Dastgir Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Monday, June 07, 1999 2:52 AM Subject: Re: Fetchmail problems >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 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