Re: fetchmail

[Sam Paul <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey,

It did work for me according to Atul's instructions just a few days back.

Sam

Anna University wrote:

> Dear Manoj and Anshul,
>      Please put these lines in .fetchmailrc in preferably the root
> directory and make it read only ( it HAS to be read only for the thing to
> work, i believe ).
>
>      set daemon=0
>      poll md4.vsnl.net.in with protocol POP3
>      user msridhar is * here
>      password embratel
>
> replace md4.vsnl.net.in with your POP server and the username msridhar and
> passwd embratel with the username and passwd that you have in your POP
> server respectively.
>
>      And to run fetchamil, just put the following command in an executable
> file
>      fetchmail -k -a -v
>
>      -k : doesn't delete messages on remote server
>      -a : retrieves all messages, including those already read
>           ( useful the first time you use fetchmail )
>      -v : verbose
>
>   there are 2 more options ( -d and -N ). I don't remember if they are
> important, but please check them out before you run fetchmail.
>
> Hope it works ! If it does, say your thanks to Atul for the brilliant and
> really clear article in PCQ ( with RHL 5.0 ) on how to get both outgoing
> and incoing mail going. You will see that whatever I have written here is
> exactly what Atul had written there. Hats off to him once again.
>
> regards
> Mani Sridhar
>
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