Hey thanks, I think that solved my problem, Im now having problems writing the 
new mail to my drive, but im sure thats a stupid permission problem, i'll fix 
that later on today... 


thanks .

On Tuesday 12 November 2002 06:37 pm, James T. Nelson III wrote:
> Without more information, I can't guarantee this will work for you, but
> I got the same error and was able to resolve it by adding the following
> line to my .fetchmailrc file:
>
> mda '/usr/bin/procmail -d %T'
>
> This will force fetchmail to send the downloaded messages to a procmail
> process and procmail to store them in '/var/spool/mail/USERID'.  This
> worked for me; YMMV.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim
>
> On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 23:28, Luke Vandervort wrote:
> > Hey guys, trying to get fetchmail 6.1 to download my mail, but I get the
> > following error messages... It seems to be some kind of SMTP error, but I
> > cant straigten it out. I have been to the website and have even added the
> > smtpname variable to the .fetchmailrc file with the same result, any
> > ideas??
> >
> > I have shorewall running, but made sure to open the proper port ... and
> > restart shorewall
> >
> > :(
> >
> > fetchmail: 6.1.0 querying pop-server.rochester.rr.com (protocol POP3) at
> > Tue 12 Nov 2002 06:22:13 PM EST: poll started
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK Messaging Multiplexor (Netscape Messaging Server 6.0
> > (built Feb 15 2002))
> > fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
> > fetchmail: POP3< -ERR invalid command
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK Messaging Multiplexor (Netscape Messaging Server 6.0
> > (built Feb 15 2002))
> > fetchmail: POP3> USER ezra
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK password required for user ezra
> > fetchmail: POP3> PASS
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK Maildrop ready
> > fetchmail: POP3> STAT
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 6 25051
> > fetchmail: POP3> LAST
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0
> > 6 messages for ezra at ms-pop.rochester.rr.com (25051 octets).
> > fetchmail: POP3> LIST
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK scan listing follows
> > fetchmail: POP3< 1 4045
> > fetchmail: POP3< 2 4383
> > fetchmail: POP3< 3 4902
> > fetchmail: POP3< 4 3664
> > fetchmail: POP3< 5 4331
> > fetchmail: POP3< 6 3726
> > fetchmail: POP3< .
> > fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK
> > reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 of 6 (4045 octets)
> > fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> > fetchmail: POP3< This is a multi-part message in MIME format...
> > fetchmail: 6.1.0 querying pop-server.rochester.rr.com (protocol POP3) at
> > Tue 12 Nov 2002 06:22:17 PM EST: poll completed
> > fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
> > fetchmail: normal termination, status 10
> >
> > --
> > Luke Vandervort
> >
> > Linux, because rebooting is for adding new hardware ...
> >
> > ----
> >
> >
> > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
> > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

-- 
Luke Vandervort

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