Hi!
So that others may not have to go through the same silliness that I brought
upon myself, here is a recap and a solution:
setup:
I'm running Mandrake 8.0. Tried to get fetchmail to fetch pop3. I have a
mailbox and it appeared to be set up properly (after advice from David Fox).
background:
I've posted before about this problem and then gave up for a day. Earlier
Mark (Dark Matter) had astutely asked me how I got mail via Mozilla to work.
I recalled
the settings incorrectly (stupid me!). Tonight I reviewed my situation. My
pop3 server name is mail and NOT mail.home.com.
Settings/configuration:
My .fetchmailrc file is as follows:
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
poll mail protocol POP3
user 'femail.bc.wave.home.com' there with password 'xxxx' is zorba
here
options fetchall
outcome upon launch:
SENDING MAIL WORKED!
THE KEY was thinking about what Mark had said. I put in the "mail" (which
is the name of my mail server on the @Home system) above. I got an error
message that included something I'd seen in my e-mail headers before:
authorization failure: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@femail.bc.wave.home.com
So I then realized that the "femail.bc.wave.home.com" is what I've seen in
my own headers, so likely that is what I ought to be using instead of
@home.com. I made the changes to make the .fecthmailrc as it is above, and
Bob was my cousin, er, uncle.
THANKS EVERYONE!
Cheers!
-warren
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