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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: Gentoo Users List <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] .fetchmailrc syntax error
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 23:03:17
Message-Id: 20201014230301.GA25884@waltdnes.org
1 With getmail having been deprecated, I can't pull it in on my fresh
2 install, so I *HAVE TO* go with fetchmail. I tried following example at
3 https://www.linode.com/docs/email/clients/using-fetchmail-to-retrieve-email/
4 but it errors out at the first line...
5
6 [i3][waltdnes][~] fetchmail
7 fetchmail:/home/waltdnes/.fetchmailrc:1: syntax error at option
8
9 Anybody have this working? The following was pulled by getmail as
10 "SimpleSSLretriever" on port 995. Here's what I'm trying that's
11 failing...
12
13 poll mail.######.com protocol pop3 with option sslproto '':
14 username "############" password "########" is "########" here
15 mda "/usr/bin/procmail -m ~/.mailfilter/.procmailrc":
16
17 --
18 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
19 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] .fetchmailrc syntax error "Remco Rijnders" <remco@×××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] .fetchmailrc syntax error David Haller <gentoo@×××××××.de>