On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 10:16:11AM -0500, Timothy Bolz wrote: > I've heard about fetchmail for years and finally read something about it. > From what from what it sounds like it will fetchs you mail every so often. > How often does it get the e-mail? Just like kmail, outlook, mutt or any other imap/pop3 client gets mail. It is afterall just a mail client. However fetchmail does something that your other clients don't do, or rather it doesn't do something your other clients do: It doesn't display mail. Instead it is a mail forwarder, usually retreiving mail from an imap/pop3 server and sending it to a local system spool.
> I use kmail and I have to press the > download button every time I want my mail. It looks like it's pretty simple > just set up an .fetchmailrc file with some script in it. Will it know what > directory my mail goes in? I've tried the command line of fetchmail > "fetchmail -k -s -u myusername efn.org" it gives the following. > Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > IMAP connection to efn.org failed: Connection refused > POP3 connection to efn.org failed: Connection refused > fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) > > Any Idea's? Turn on debug mode to see what it is doing. Make sure you can connect to efn.org via imap/pop3. If you can't do it with kmail, you won't be able to connect with fetchmail. Cory -- Cory Petkovsek Adapting Information Adaptable IT Consulting Technology to your (541) 914-8417 business [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.AdaptableIT.com _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
