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List:       fetchmail-friends
Subject:    Re: [fetchmail]errors when trying to run
From:       Steve Switzer <sswitzer () binaryh ! com>
Date:       2001-08-28 12:55:52
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Shawn,
   Please reply and include the contents of your .fetchmailrc file (X out
the password). We'll then be able to help you easier. However, it looks
like the word 'Mail' on line 7 is unrecognized.
Try this out for size:

poll pop.mail.yahoo.com proto pop3
  user yahoo_id
  pass yahoo_password
  is local_user_name here
  options nokeep fetchall

The above should poll yahoo and grab all the mail, and deliver it to
"local_user_name" on your Linux box. You can put all the above on one
line, if you wish, you can indent, like I did, you can use ":" or ";" to
separate things, etc. Fetchmail is quite good about deciphering. However,
nowhere did I type 'Mail'. I'm not sure where that would appear, as I've
never used that keyword. Also, I noticed that Fetchmail is case sensitive
in its keywords. (i.e. "poll" works, but "Poll" or "POLL" will not).

Take care!
Steve


On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Shawn wrote:

> Hey gang, I'm having problems trying to run fetchmail
> and fetchmailconf and I'd love some help.
>
> I ran fetchmailconf and set it up to work w/ yahoo.com
> as the mail server. I put in my user ID and password.
> Then if I tried to run fetchmail or to test it, I keep
> getting:
>
> fetchmail:/home/shelbydz/.fetchmailrc:7: parse error
> at Mail
>
> And now, when I run fetchmailconf, I keep getting:
>
> fetchmail:/home/shelbydz/.fetchmailrc:7: parse error
> at Mail
> `umask 077; fetchmail --configdump --nosyslog
> >/usr/tmp/@2318.1' run failure, status 1280
> Unknown error while running fetchmail --configdump
>
> can someone help me with this and help get me running?
> I downloaded the source code, should I just get the
> RPM? Would that install better?
>
> thanks. . .Shawn
>
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