[fetchmail-users] Re: Fetchmail problem - Need Help

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Dhandapani,Padmanabhan schrieb am 2006-06-29:

> Hi Team,
> I am using the fetchmail release 6.2.5  in my Solaris 5.8. 

Please update to 6.3.4.

> I have installed sucssfully in the solaris box. 
> Then i have enabled the POP3 for my mail account and i have created the
> /etc/fetchmailrc files as guided by internet as below. Please find my

Please try to understand what the configuration looks like, everything
is documented in the manual page. Alternatively, if Python and the
Python-Tk libraries are installed, you can use fetchmailconf to
configure fetchmail.

> below fetchmailrc file.
> 
> # more fetchmailrc
> set syslog
> set postmaster "app...@tu..."
> set nobouncemail
> set properties ""
> set idfile /var/run/fetchmail.ids
> poll pop3.tui.de.insite proto pop3

Add "uidl" to this line (without quote marks)

> user 'app...@tu...site'

Is the password in .netrc? If not, it is missing.

> poll pop3.tui.de.insite
> user 'app...@tu...site'

Remove the second poll and user lines.

> Now i am running the below command to fetchmail from my exchange box.
> But i am not receiving any mail. What is this "/var/run/fetchmail.ids"
> which is not created in my path.

It is handled by fetchmail.

> This is a plain text file which i have
> to create or it will create by itself.
> 
> fetchmail -v -v -f /etc/fetchmailrc

Add --nosyslog to this command line to show what goes wrong.

Please reply only to the list.

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Matthias Andree