[Gllug] Confiuring Fetchmail with Demon

[Chris Bell]

On Sun 20 Oct, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 11:52, Chris Bell wrote:
> > 
> >    The POP3 server frequently times out on individual POP3 requests from my
> > old Acorn computer for just a few users, but I assume that I should be able
> > to collect mail for all users without polling the server for each individual
> > user, then sort the incoming mail into the various local mailboxes.
> >    I have made several attempts at finding the correct commands from the
> > selection list in the manual, but fetchmail refuses to start, and both
> > fetchmail --verbose and --configdump report that no mailservers have been
> > specified.
> >    The local network is connected to the ADSL box via a Smoothwall box. I
> > have a local DNS server, and can ping pop3.demon.co.uk from any computer on
> > the network, including "postman" and the Acorn computer.
> 
> Try this:-
> 
> 
> set daemon 300  # Poll at 5-minute intervals
> set postmaster "postmaster"
> set syslog
> set bouncemail
> 
> poll pop3.demon.co.uk protocol POP3 aka mailstore nodns:
>     localdomains mynode.demon.co.uk
>     user mynode is * password secretpw fetchall
> 
> Replace "mynode" and "secretpw" as appropriate...
> 
> Mike.
> 
> 
> 
   Many thanks, will try that tomorrow.

-- 
Chris Bell


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