Hello,
I receive mail on this account that can be accessed via POP3. I used to use fetchmail as my mail-fetcher on an old machine to do this. I am trying to do the same from another machine that runs Redhat 9 (Linux 2.4.20-8) and seems like I cannot decipher how exactly to do this (perusing the fetchmail man page had me really confused). My .fetchmailrc looks like this: --------- set syslog set daemon 10 poll newdoc.dartmouth.org and options no dns keep user 'karthikv' there is 'karthik' here options
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$ fetchmail fetchmail:/home/karthik/.fetchmailrc:6: parse error at user
How can I fix this? (BTW, I had a whole load of dependency issues on trying to install fetchmailconf...)
The error message says the problem is on line 6, but in the extract you provide, the "user" line is line 4. Have you left some part of the file out?
None of the examples for .fetchmailrc that I could locate (on a quick search) actually used the word "options", instead simply putting the desired options in those spots. So you might try deleting that word on the user line and the one before it.
Is it possible that a non-printing character slipped into the file (for example, a CRLF combo for newline instead of the Unix LF)?
All the examples I could find either used no quotes or (if there were embedded spaces) regular double quotes. So you might try either removing the single quotes or replacing them with double quotes.
Since this used to work on a different machine ... why aren't you simply moving the working .fetchmailrc from the old setup to the new one/
As to your BTW ... the Debian packaging system says that fetchmailconf depends only on fetchmail itself and the python and python-tk packages. Of course, that conceals some dependencies derived from those three, but it suggests that nothing really exotic is needed. Might you have run into some versioning issue (like a libc6 mismatch)? Hard to say much here, since I don't know Red Hat, not having used it for years.
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