Yes, pretty close. I flipped-flopped about dns/nodns (currently omitted
both), and don't have 'to root'. In addition to what is shown below, I have
pass xxxx
Here is my latest setup (from fetchmail -v):
This is fetchmail release 4.6.4
Linux debian 2.2.12 #2 Thu Aug 26 11:46:26 PDT 1999 i686 unknown
Taking options from command line and /root/.fetchmailrc
Idfile is /root/.fetchids
Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to postmaster.
Options for retrieving from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
True name of server is pop3.email.msn.com.
Protocol is POP3.
Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
Default mailbox selected.
Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
Fetched messages will be kept on the server (--keep on).
Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush off).
Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
Carriage-return stripping is disabled (stripcr off).
Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits off).
MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: smtp.email.msn.com
Recognized listener spam block responses are: 571 550 501
Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
No UIDs saved from this host.
David
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 5:10 AM
Subject: Re: installing sendmail
> So you have a file like
> poll isp.com protocol pop3 nodns
> localdomains yourhostname
> user username pass password to
> root
> *
> here
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, davidturetsky wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 04:25:26 -0700
> > From: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: installing sendmail
> >
> > Yes, that is exactly what I did
> >
> > I've been doing this by hand since fetchmailconf assumes a graphical
> > interface and I'm running from the command line
> >
> > David
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 12:22 AM
> > Subject: Re: installing sendmail
> >
> >
> > > Actually if you have fetchmail installed then you can write your own
> > > .fetchmailrc in your home directory.
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