[techtalk] problem

Robert Wade feline at brokersys.com
Mon Aug 14 21:45:20 EST 2000


Quite odd that it wouldn't work after a fresh install. Can you give me the
output you get when you run fetchmail in verbose mode (fetchmail -v)?

Robert Wade

On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Anthony Russello wrote:

> 
> Alright,  here's the deal,  I had my Linux machine (Mandrake 7) running
> just fine.  I'm using fetchmail to retrieve my email messages from my pop3
> ISP server.
> 
> The fetchmail file is perfect,  I've been using it for a month.  Then I
> installed a new hard drive.  That worked, but left things a little
> messy.  Including the fact that fetchmail no longer worked.  Since I'm new
> to Linux,  I figured I messed up,  and decided to just reinstall Linux.
> 
> The installation went great, I partitioned everythign the way I wanted it,
> but now,  I still can't use fetchmail.  and it's the same fetchmailrc file
> contents as before.
> 
> Has anyone had a similar problem to this?
> 
> Please help.  I've already contacted my ISP who were very very helpful,
> but unfortunately, I still can't use fetchmail for some odd reason.
> 
> If you could help me out,  I would greatly appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
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