Gee, I run fetchmail from my root account all the time and successfully fetch mail from my ISP and toss it into different user accounts I have established on my local system. In fact, I have a crontab entry run it every two hours for me in the background. It works great. Just be sure sendmail is setup ok so when fetchmail brings in a piece of mail, it knows what to do with it. -----Original Message----- From: Watson, Keith [mailto:kwatson@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 1:26 PM To: 'speakup at braille.uwo.ca' Subject: RE: fetchmail problem Jacob, Not sure if this will help but I had the same problem with mine. I had to create a local account with the same name as the one on my ISP's. Otherwise it would just sit there. If this helps, hey my first one, if not oh well im still learning, grins. -----Original Message----- From: Jacob Schmude [mailto:jacobs@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 2:28 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: OT: fetchmail problem Hi all This is slightly off topic, but maybe someone on here can answer it. This one's got me stumped. Fetchmail will not deliver any mail from my ISP to my local system. I type fetchmail, and I'm connected to the server. I get the message reading message 1 of 10 (or how many I've got) and then the number of octets in the header. Then, though, fetchmail appears frozen. It reads no more, it just sits there, and ctrl-c is the only thing that terminates it. I'm thinking it's got something to do with sendmail, which is the SMTP agent that is provided with slackware. I'm still able to read mail by having pine read it from my ISP's IMAP server, but it's a bit slow that way. Any ideas? I've gone through the sendmail reconfiguration and still no good. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
