----- Original Message -----
From: "Jakob Hirsch" <jh(_at_)plonk(_dot_)de>
To: "Robert MacLean" <robert(_at_)idws(_dot_)com>;
<fetchmail-friends(_at_)lists(_dot_)ccil(_dot_)org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [fetchmail] @ symbol in username
Robert MacLean wrote:
Error: fetchmail: Authorization failure on
robert(_at_)idws(_dot_)com@mail.idws.com
My only idea is the @ symbol in the username is causing a problem.
You could have checked this with "fetchmail -N -v mail.idws.com",
but
from my observation a @ is left alone. In general, you can
surrounded
critical string with quotation marks " or escape critical characters
with backslashes \.
And it's most likely that your provider supports substitions for the
@
(e.g. %, !, &). If he would not, his customers using (at least older
versions of) Netscape Communicator would get no mail (it strips @
after
the username).
in my config file the I was using the IP address of the mail server.
soon as I changed that it work. thanx for all the help