Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail with pop3

[Rob F. <rf...@fu...>]

pongthep wrote:
> Assuming my e-mail address is my...@is...
> pop3 server is mail.isp.com (notice! ``mail'' prefix)
> What shall i put in ~/.fetchmailrc?

What matters to fetchmail is the server name and your username there, not 
your email address.

> poll mail.isp.com proto pop3:
>   user "myname" there has password "mypassword" is "mylocalname" here
>   mda "procmail -f %F -d %T"

That looks basically correct at a glance, unless you actually used the 
words "myname", "mypassword", and "mylocalname".  :-)

> but both of them (with or without ``mail.'' prefix) failed
> the command i used to invoke fetchmail is
>
> % fetchmail -akv

Failed how?  What error message do you get?

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