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.
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.
My .fetchmail is like the one I will paste below:
poll pop.gmail.com
proto pop3
username daniel.dalton47@xxxxxxxxx
password mypassword
Didn't you say you need SSL for this?
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.
This daemon line shouldn't be in a poll definition.
Geoff.
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