fetchmail

[Jude DaShiell]

As root do the command: chmod 600 /home/daniel/fetchmailrc once then try 
running fetchmail again.



On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Daniel Dalton wrote:

> Hi Geoff,
>
> On 25/11/2007 7:04 PM, Geoff Shang wrote:
>>  Daniel Dalton wrote:
>> 
>> >  Do I just need exim for fetchmail?
>>
>>  You will need some form of mail transport agent, yes.  Exim should do just
>>  fine.  It's what I use.
>> 
>> >  When I run
>> >  dpkg-reconfigure exim
>> >  I get an error about unknown file type.
>>
>>  If you want help with error messages, you will need to be specific about
>>  what the message is otherwise no-one will be able to help you.  Also,
>>  googling error messages is often a useful thing to do.
>
> Ok I get:
> "db_upgrade: /var/spool/exim/db/etry.lockfile: unrecognized file type"
> And I also get
> "db_upgrade: DB->upgrade: /var/spool/exim/db/retry.lockfile: invalid 
> argument."
>
> Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?
> I ran it as root.
>
>> 
>> >  And if I type "fetchmail"
>> >  I get:
>> >  /home/daniel/fetchmailrc must have no more than -rwx---x---(0710) 
>> >  permissions.
>>
>>  This error message means that fetchmail considers your personal Email
>>  settings to be in a file which is not secure enough.
>> 
>> >  Any ideas on what I should do?
>>
>>  Read the chmod man page for more info about file permissions.  Basically
>>  it is saying that only you as the owner should be able to read the file.
>>  I could just simply give you the command but it's probably more useful to
>>  you to learn how to do it yourself.  You probably want it to be readable
>>  and writeable by the owner (i.e. you) and nothing else.
>
> Ok I will. Could you please just tell me the command this time? I was hoping 
> to get email set up on my box then I was going to read lots and lots on lynx, 
> alpine emacs BRLTTY, speakup  etc.
>
>> 
>> >  My .fetchmail is like the one I will paste below:
>> >  poll pop.gmail.com
>> >  proto pop3
>> >  username daniel.dalton47 at gmail.com
>> >  password mypassword
>>
>>  Didn't you say you need SSL for this?
>
> I do yes. Do you know what I should add to tell it I am using ssl?
>
>>
>>  Also, you might want to include a daemon line in your .fetchmailrc file to
>>  make fetchmail keep on checking your mail.  For example:
>>
>>  set daemon 180
>>
>>  would have it check mail every 3 minutes.
>
> Ok I'll do that. Thanks.
>
>>
>>  This daemon line shouldn't be in a poll definition.
>
> What do you mean? Just put that line at the top of the file?
>
> And will I have to do something like this to sendmail so I can send mail?
>
> Thanks for all the help.
>
>
> -- 
> Daniel Dalton
>
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> daniel.dalton47 at gmail.com
>
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