massive fetchmail frustration

1998-03-06 Thread Britton
Fetchmail has me completely baffled. I think is all the convenient noise language that has been introduced into the config file. Here is my situation: I have an account on my homemachine with usernam bkerin. My account name on my ISP is fsblk. I would like to be able to have all mail

Re: massive fetchmail frustration

1998-03-06 Thread Jens Ritter
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: $ fetchmail . . reading message 69 (2365 bytes) .. not flushed reading message 70 (855 bytes) not flushed The problem is that these messages don't show up on my home machine. For example: $ mail No mail for bkerin where this mail

Re: massive fetchmail frustration

1998-03-06 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Britton wrote: Fetchmail has me completely baffled. I think is all the convenient noise language that has been introduced into the config file. Here is my situation: I have an account on my homemachine with usernam bkerin. My account name on my ISP is fsblk. I

Re: massive fetchmail frustration

1998-03-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
Britton wrote: ... Lastly, does anyone have a clean way set up to invoke fetchmail as root and get mail for all users? I would like to see that also. This is my setup: I use fetchmail as a cron job to download mail and I pass it to procmail to distribute to users. I use sendmail. There is

Re: massive fetchmail frustration

1998-03-06 Thread tko
Britton writes: [snip] Sorry, can't help you with fetchmail, Yet 8-) Some related questions: Is there an elegant userland way to bring up a ppp link and retrieve mail every day at a specified time (like 4 AM)? Options that occur to me are: I use UUCP and wanted to do the same sort of