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In article <39d06520.1486687@news.adelaide.on.net>,
David. E. Goble <goble@gtech> wrote:
>Hi all;
>
>I can not seem to get fetchmailconf to work. A problem with python not
>configured for Tk.
>
>And I can not seem to make head or tails out of the fetchmail docs.
>
>Can anyone help?

What kind of problems do your have with Python? What distribution do
you run?


/A

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On 26 Sep 2000 14:25:51 +0100, Andreas K�h�ri
<andkaha@hello.to.REMOVE> wrote:
>
>What kind of problems do your have with Python? What distribution do
>you run?
>
Hi Andreas;

Iam running RedHat 6.2, I do not know how to use python, but I can
type python and get an intro screen and >>> prompt.

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


--Regards       David. E. Goble
             goble [AT] kin.net.au
          http://www.kin.net.au/goble
Po Box 648 Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, SA 5223

In article <39d1c76c.6696930@news.adelaide.on.net>,
David. E. Goble <goble@gtech> wrote:
>On 26 Sep 2000 14:25:51 +0100, Andreas K�h�ri
><andkaha@hello.to.REMOVE> wrote:
>>
>>What kind of problems do your have with Python? What distribution do
>>you run?
>>
>Hi Andreas;
>
>Iam running RedHat 6.2, I do not know how to use python, but I can
>type python and get an intro screen and >>> prompt.
>
>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
>
>
>--Regards       David. E. Goble
>             goble [AT] kin.net.au
>          http://www.kin.net.au/goble
>Po Box 648 Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, SA 5223


I don't run Red Hat, I run Debian, and on Debian systems there's a
package called 'python-tk' (which is needed by the Debian
'fetchmailconf' package). You should find and install the equivalent
package on your Red Hat system (if there is one, I don't know).

/A

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>On 26 Sep 2000 14:25:51 +0100, Andreas K�h�ri
><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

On 30 Sep 2000 02:23:28 GMT, mpulliam@machine.linux (mpulliam) wrote:
>
>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.
>
Hi MP;

Thanks thats what I needed.

Question email to erc@... is bounced to goble@... Does fetchmail
handle the filtering of this or does sendmail be better...?

--Regards       David. E. Goble
             goble [AT] kin.net.au
          http://www.kin.net.au/goble
Po Box 648 Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, SA 5223

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 07:15:27 GMT, David. E. Goble <goble@gtech> wrote:
|On 26 Sep 2000 14:25:51 +0100, Andreas K�h�ri
|<andkaha@hello.to.REMOVE> wrote:
|>
|>What kind of problems do your have with Python? What distribution do
|>you run?
|>
|Hi Andreas;
|
|Iam running RedHat 6.2, I do not know how to use python, but I can
|type python and get an intro screen and >>> prompt.
|
|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


This is what I use in my .fetchmailrc file. Just swap your real
account names & password, etc, and you may be OK.


poll isp.domain with protocol pop3
    user goble, with password goble-pass, is degoble here
poll isp.domain with protocol pop3
    user erc, with password erc-pass, is begoble here


This will try and talk SMTP to a server such as sendmail running
on your local box (the one running fetchmail). If the local SMTP
server is running on a different local box, add this line at the
end of each 'poll' section above:


    smtphost local.smtp.server


This is also usefull if your SMTP server is only listening on
a specific IP address on your machine. DON'T put an IP address
here, as fetchmail uses this while talking to the SMTP server
and sends the email to, say, degoble@local.smtp.server


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