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Article #474Re: help: configuring fetchmail
From: mpulliam
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 02:23
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 02:23
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>On 26 Sep 2000 14:25:51 +0100, Andreas K๏ฟฝh๏ฟฝri ><andkaha@hello.to.REMOVE> wrote: > >When I try to run fetchmailconf, I get an error message that (from >memory) that ...python/tk is not configured for python/tk... > >All I want is fetchmail mail to fetch mail from isp.domain and send >emails to goble@... to user degoble and email to erc@... to user >begoble You don't really need fetchmailconf at all. Fetchmailconf needs python, but fetchmail itself does not. You can configure fetchmail without fetchmailconf, which is just an optional configuration tool. What you want fetchmail to do is pretty straightforward and if you go man fetchmail you'll be able to configure it by hand. You make a file ~./fetchmailrc and put a couple bits of information there, and away you go. Here is the line you need for one user account in fetchmail: poll mail.myisp.com with proto POP3 user myname there with password mypassword is myhomename here You will need two of those lines for your two accounts. It looks like nonsense right now but read man fetchmail and it'll be clear. MP
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