Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:09 +0000 From: David Banning <david@www3.pacific-pages.com> To: David Raistrick <keen@damoe.wireless-isp.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fetchmail hangs - any other possibilities? Message-ID: <20000927123909.A10895@www3.pacific-pages.com> In-Reply-To: <20000926171221.A502@www3.pacific-pages.com>; from david@www3.pacific-pages.com on Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:12:21PM %2B0000 References: <200009261516.PAA00761@www3.pacific-pages.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009261651390.48495-100000@damoe.wireless-isp.net> <20000926171221.A502@www3.pacific-pages.com>
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problem seems solved. I had originally installed fetchmail from cdrom - binary version. So I uninstalled that and compiled the ports version - seems to work now. On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:12:21PM +0000, David Banning wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 04:53:58PM -0400, David Raistrick wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, David Banning wrote: > > > > > I am used to using a pop server like popclient > > > where I can put my mail server name, password, and > > > mail login on the command line. How do you > > > > You need a pop3 /client/ not a server. > OK. > > > Heh. Welcome to the club...What exactly is the problem you are having > > with fetchmail? > > I have 4 pop mail accounts, each with a different mail server. > Fetchmail works fine with 3 of the 4. > The fourth, is a company called mailbank who specializes in selling > mail boxes. They sell be my mail address david@banning.com > > I get my mail fetchmail getmail.banning.com > which works fine from my palm pilot, windows, etc. > > Through unix, initially I could not collect mail - I got an error > when the LAST command was issued. > I solved that problem by using $ fetchmail -U getmail.banning.com > which for some reason does not cause the other end to > issue a LAST command. > my .fetchmailrc contains nothing special; > > skip getmail.banning.com: > protocol pop3; > username david; > pass ******; > > > now issuing a $ fetchmail -v -U getmail.banning.com > gets me: > > fetchmail: 5.3.0 querying getmail.banning.com (protocol POP3) at Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:05:18 +0000 (GMT) > fetchmail: POP3< +OK <2282.970002483@mail.banning.com> > fetchmail: POP3> USER david > fetchmail: POP3< +OK > fetchmail: POP3> PASS * > fetchmail: POP3< +OK > fetchmail: POP3> STAT > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0 0 > fetchmail: No mail for david at getmail.banning.com > fetchmail: POP3> QUIT > fetchmail: POP3< +OK > > then it hangs. A $ ps ax | grep fetch > gives me the stuck process: > 611 p3 I+ 0:00.09 fetchmail -v -U getmail.banning.com > > any ideas? -- "If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce" -- Winston Churchill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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