fedora-list Digest, Vol 9, Issue 280

[Richard E Miles]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:34:31 -0500 (EST)
fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:

> > I envoke fetchmail with a simple command line fetchmail, no options except those
> > in my .fetchmailrc file. Here is my .fetchmailrc file:
> > 
> > # Configuration created Sun Jul 11 10:36:42 2004 by fetchmailconf
> > set postmaster "rmiles"
> > set bouncemail
> > set no spambounce
> > set properties ""
> > set daemon 90
> > poll mail.comcast.net with proto POP3
> >        user 'r.godzilla' there with password '*******' is 'rmiles' here
> 
> Add:
> 
> set no syslog
> set verbose
> set logfile /home/rmiles/fetchmail.log (or where ever you want the log
> file)
> 
> > I have put asterisks where the password goes. I run singledrop. I do not start
> > it in a cronjob. It runs in daemon mode.
> 
> The daemon mode should avoid that 2 or more instances of fetchmail
> process the same mail in parallel.
> 
> > I will take your suggestion and use -v -v command line options to capture the
> > control messages between the server. The mail server does not keep messages.
> > Should I use the -K option to ensure the fetched mail is removed from the
> > server?
> 
> -K (nokeep) is default and doesn't need to be set explicitly.
> 
> Enable logging and grep through the log. I am sure it will bring you a
> step forward.
> 
> > I will let you know how the log of communications turns out.
> > Thank you for your assistance.
> 
> You are welcome.
>  
> > Richard E Miles
> 
> Alexander

I have made the changes to my .fetchmailrc file, however set verbose caused a
sytax error. It must not be a valid set parameter. Instead I added --verbose
as a command line option.
Thanks Alexander

-- 
Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA.
registered linux user 46097