on Sat, 14 Dec 2002 02:56:11PM -0500, Travis Crump insinuated:
> Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> > all of a sudden i need to be using secure fetchmail, which i
> > should have been to begin with, but didn't really realize i
> > wasn't.  i apt-got fetchmail-ssl, and changed the POP3 line to
> > IMAP in my .fetchmailrc but can't retrieve mail from my server at
> > all.  any tips or places on where the FM is to R?  
>
> Whether or not you use secure fetchmail is independent of whether you 
> use IMAP or POP3...  

okay, thanks for the clarification ... i haven't mucked around with
mail getting and sending config almost at all before, and it's still
just letters and acronyms to me.

> I use secure POP3 with fetchmail which I set up 
> with fetchmailconf, and my stanza is:
> 
> poll techhouse.org with proto POP3
>      user 'pretzalz' there with password '*******' is 'pretzalz' here ssl
> 
> Maybe you just need to add the ssl at the end?

hunh, good idea ... tried it, though, and no dice.  hm.

</nori>

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