Gidday Frank Like I said I know nothing about fetchmail, and I'm pretty much a newbie, but that would be the first thing I"d do to figure out if it's a problem with Yahoo or something else. It seems like something else. Bit weird to let you put more than one address to collect mail from and then not have it work.
Pure stab in the dark but have you tried to put > > set postmaster "postmaster" > > set bouncemail > > set no spambounce > > set daemon 20 in a second time so that each collection address has it? If that works maybe you could trim lines back out until you find what you need to have in there. Otherwise is there a fetchmail specific list maybe? rgrds max > yes,, I did that, then it checked the yahoo and not the other one.. > > I would take that to mean that one fetchmail rc file could only contain one > mail server. > > but if that is the case, why does fetchmailconf allow you to add as many as > you like? > > > > rgds > > Frank > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anke & Max > Sent: Wednesday, 5 December 2001 8:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] fetchmail config.. > > > Gidday Frank > Don't know anything about fetchmail but I have a silly question. > Have you swapped the two around and put Yahoo first? > rgds > max > > Frank asked on Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:38 PM > > I have a small fetchmail problem.. > > > > I have a .fetchmailrc file in /root that is supposed to check a few mail > > accounts > > and make delivery to a few local users.. > > > > so the file looks like this (with some detail changes obviously, to hide > > some confidential info :-) > > ###################################################################### > > > > set postmaster "postmaster" > > set bouncemail > > set no spambounce > > set daemon 20 > > poll mail.vianet.net with proto POP3 > > user 'frankieh' there with password 'myPassWd' is 'franki' here > > options fetchall > > > > poll pop.mail.yahoo.com with proto POP3 > > user 'charmaine' there with password 'somechick' is 'charmaine' > here > > options fetchall > > > > > > > > ###################################################################### > > > > so, my question is this, why does the first email seem to be the only one > > collected??? > > > > the yahoo account doesn't seem to get collected.. anyone know why? > > > > Also, since I am running this as a deamon, should I add fetchmail to > > /etc/ppp/ip-up.local ?? > > > > so it starts when the dialup is completed? > > > > > > Any help, suggestions, slander, or anything else would be much > appreciated. > > > > > > rgds > > > > Frank > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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