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Re: [fetchmail]fetchmail dies in daemon mode, cron does not work

2001-05-15 18:01:47
From: "Eugene Geldenhuys" <eugeneg(_at_)tfx(_dot_)com(_dot_)au>

Did I send HTML?
I don't know how this happened, I do not usually.
Many apologies

We all have our bad days :-)

On 14 May 01, at 10:26, Rob MacGregor wrote:

> 1) What version of fetchmail?
5.3.1 - I used the RedHat RPM "fetchmail-5.3.1-1.i386.rpm"

Oooooh, that old :-) Try upgrading to 5.8.3 (current). That might fix things.

> 2) What are the errors in the logs?
cannot open fetchmail.rc file
> 3) What is the location of your fetchmailrc file?
/root/.fetchmailrc

Sounds like it's looking for the wrong thing. Hopefully the upgrade will resolve this.

> 4) What is the contents of your fetchmailrc file?
defaults proto pop3
        user fetchmail
        pass PASSWD
poll server.domain

Looks simple enough, assuming that the account "fetchmail" exists on that machine and holds all the email that you wish to retrieve.

--
Rob
   The chief weapons of Unix: fear, surprise and
   ruthless efficiency.

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