Thanks. That worked but the darn thing still won't work. Even though "patrick" is my login account I get the following errer
rhino:~# fetchmail 3 messages for maxy36 at pop.dial.pipex.com (52287 octets). reading message 1 of 3 (29367 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like rec ipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED]' fetchmail: can't even send to patrick! fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.dial.pipex.com fetchmail: Query status=10 rhino:~# I have tried [EMAIL PROTECTED], postmaster, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a few other variants to no avail. All advice appreciated. Patrick ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 4:48 PM Subject: Re: fetchmail woes > On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 03:15:57PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > After a heavy couple of hours reading man fetchmail I came up with this > > .fetchmailrc: > > > > set postmaster "patrick" > > poll pop.dial.pipex.com with proto POP3 > > user "maxy36" there with password "ngookich" is patrick here options > > fetchall > > warnings 3600 > > > > But I get this message when I try to run it. > > > > rhino:~# fetchmail > > File /root/.fetchmailrc must have no more than -rwx--x--- (0710) > > permissions. > > > > Also, after chown 0710 I get > > > > rhino:~# ls -al .fetchmailrc > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 164 Jul 12 15:51 .fetchmailrc > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > chmod, not chown > > -- > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen >
