Re: accessing email via POP3

2004-12-01 Thread J.
On 1 Dec 2004, Karthik Vishwanath Adv03 wrote: > Thanks for all responses -- Ray, I had removed a couple of > comments from the pasted .fetchmailrc in the email composer. > Hence the discrepancy about line number errors. :-? > > Following Amin's advice I tried to run fetchmail from the > cmd-line

Re: accessing email via POP3

2004-12-01 Thread J.
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Ulrich Fürst wrote: > On 30 Nov 2004 15:54:46 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (Karthik Vishwanath Adv03) wrote: > > My .fetchmailrc > > looks like this: > > - > > set daemon 10 > it's seconds you're giving as an argument. So that is: "poll every 10 > seconds" Polling every 10

Re: accessing email via POP3

2004-12-01 Thread Peter
When I switched to Linux from DOS it was fetchmail which nearly made me abandon the idea of using Linux, until somebody suggested not to use fetchmail and things worked out alright ever since. I am using getmail now, it's a great program. http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-4/ Regards

Re: accessing email via POP3

2004-12-01 Thread Ulrich Fürst
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:19:23 +0100 (CET) "J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Ulrich Fürst wrote: > > > On 30 Nov 2004 15:54:46 EST > > [EMAIL PROTECTED](Karthik Vishwanath > > Adv03) wrote: > > > My .fetchmailrc > > > looks like this: > > > - > > > set daemon 10 > > it's

Re: accessing email via POP3

2004-12-01 Thread J.
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Ulrich Fürst wrote: > On 30 Nov 2004 15:54:46 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (Karthik Vishwanath Adv03) wrote: > > My .fetchmailrc > > looks like this: > > - > > set daemon 10 > it's seconds you're giving as an argument. So that is: "poll every 10 > seconds" Polling every 10

Re: accessing email via POP3

2004-12-01 Thread Karthik Vishwanath Adv03
Thanks for all responses -- Ray, I had removed a couple of comments from the pasted .fetchmailrc in the email composer. Hence the discrepancy about line number errors. :-? Following Amin's advice I tried to run fetchmail from the cmd-line and I could'nt authenticate myself (I am 100% sure about ke

Re: accessing email via POP3

2004-12-01 Thread Ulrich Fürst
On 30 Nov 2004 15:54:46 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karthik Vishwanath Adv03) wrote: > My .fetchmailrc > looks like this: > - > set daemon 10 it's seconds you're giving as an argument. So that is: "poll every 10 seconds" > poll newdoc.dartmouth.org and options no dns keep As far as I know you

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2004-12-01 Thread Amin
Sorry about that. I have to learn to hit the Reply All button for linux-newbie. I'm forwarding my reply to the list. -- Yawar Amin --- Begin Message --- Karthik Vishwanath Adv03 wrote: Hello, I receive mail on this account that can be accessed via POP3. I used to use fetchmail as my mail-fetcher

Re: accessing email via POP3

2004-11-30 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 03:54 PM 11/30/2004 -0500, Karthik Vishwanath Adv03 wrote: 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 l

accessing email via POP3

2004-11-30 Thread Karthik Vishwanath Adv03
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 fe