On Monday 23 Jan 2006 11:02, jdow wrote: > > OK, is your ISP working via pop3 or via imap for your mail? > Pop3 > For pop3 harken back to a prior rock of mine to see what a typical > session would look like. In my case for Earthlink it'd be something > a little different: > ===8<--- > $ telnet pop.earthlink.net pop3 > Trying 209.86.93.201... > Connected to pop.earthlink.net (209.86.93.201). > Escape character is '^]'. > +OK NGPopper vEL_6_10 at earthlink.net ready > <17601.1138013724@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > user XXXXXXXXXXXX > +OK > pass XXXXXXXXXXXX > +OK XXXXXXXXXX has 0 messages (0 octets). > quit > +OK > Connection closed by foreign host. OK - with that example to help I managed to log in and got the message that there are 2 messages in the mailbox. > ===8<--- > The .fetchmailrc in my own directory looks like this at the moment: > ===8<--defaults mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d jdow" > #set postmaster "jdow" > set syslog > set postmaster "" > set no bouncemail > set no spambounce > set properties "" > #set daemon 60 > #set logfile fetchmail_el.log > poll smtp.earthlink.net with proto POP3 > user 'XXXXXXXX' there with password 'XXXXXXXX' > is 'xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx' here options pass8bits > smtpaddress ' ' > poll smtp.earthlink.net with proto POP3 > user 'YYYYYYYY' there with password 'YYYYYYYY' > is 'xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx' here options pass8bits > smtpaddress ' ' > ===8<--- > I start the fetchmail as my own user account, XXXXXXXX, with this > command: /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 90 --fetchmailrc > /home/XXXXXXXX/.fetchmailrc > > Fill in the same information you used to use for the username and > password. Some ISPs may want you to use xxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx type > format for the username. Then you need the password. Sadly, fetchmail > does not store this encrypted. > For some reason it seems to need an entirely different format than on the old server, but with your example as a starting point and error messages to assis, I've managed to connect and download the two messages. Now I have to work out why kmail is not seeing them. > (I'm heading off to bed now. So I won't be able to follow up for > "several hours".) Sleep well. Anne
