On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, BOB'S MAIL wrote:

> >From the Debian~#  prompt I execute fetchmail and get the fiollowing 
> >response:
>  
>     fetchmail: no mail servers have been specified.
> 
> >From dselect I ran appconfig (I think it was) and I answered the queries and 
> >see my responses in files I have observed with mc while trying to get the 
> >above working.  So from root:
>  
> 1.  How do I get a server for fetchmail?

You need to create a .fetchmailrc file in your home directory. It should
contain something similar to the following:

-----
defaults
batchlimit 5

poll [mailserver] proto POP3
        user [user_on_mailserver] with password [pass] is [localuser] here
        fetchall smtphost localhost
-----

                       Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

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