fetchmailwon't open

[elinor]

Mandrake 7.2 beta: I have been trying to open fetchmail so that I can use PINE to read new mail. (I've been sending okay.) When I try to open fetchmail, it just hangs and nothing ever happens. I looked in /usr/bin, and fetchmail is there, as is a file called fetchmailconf. I opened fetchmailconf with a text editor, which told me it was a graphical way to congifure mail. I tried to launch this file as well. Nothing happened. I changed permissions so that I would have access to the files as a non-root user, but this did not work. I could not launch these files as root, either. Even though the files are in plain view, it is as if they don't exist when I try to launch them! Any ideas? THANKS!

[rayjones]

Yes, fetchmailconf is an executable that must be launched from inside Xwindows, from a terminal emulator. It works well for me, but, really, unless you have a complex thing, is overkill, as the .fetchmailrc, which it writes for you, is simple. Here's mine:

# Configuration created Sun May 28 00:10:19 2000 by fetchmailconf
set postmaster "postmaster"
set bouncemail
set properties ""
set daemon 3600
poll pop.atl.mediaone.net with proto POP3
user "myname" there with password "XXXXXXXX" is root here

This can be jiggled together in VI in a minute. That 3600 up there for the daemon is polling time in SECONDS. Good Luck



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[sirrab]

when you enter fetchmail at the console add -v -v to it.

eg fetchmail -v -v

this will give you a printout of what it is doing.

sirrab