Gary,
Please see the following:
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 03:23:19PM -0800, gary marbach wrote:
> Hi. I'm a newb at trying to use Cygwin and fetchmail. I was checking
> out an article on Cygwin and it seemed like something that could help
> me get my email data out of gmail...so, I thought I'd give it a try
> with Fetchmail. I'm sure I've messed up the setup somewhere, based on
> the result I'm getting back when I execute the Cygwin command to start
> up fetchmail. I was hoping you could help me figure out what I've
> messed up on?
>
> The contents of my .FETCHMAILRC file are:
> poll imap.aol.com with proto POP3 and options no dns
> user paulinemarbach with password xxx is Owner here options ssl
>
> The result of my query is what I have stored in the attached JPG file
> (hope that presenting it that way is acceptable).
The preferred way is to cut and paste the text -- there was no need to
use an image to convey the pertinent information.
For the archives, the following was the error message:
fetchmail: getaddrinfo("imap.aol.com","pop3s") error: nodename
nor servname provided, or not known
> When you get a second, could you see if I've done something obviously
> incorrect? I also tried it against my gmail account and that also did
> not work (same failure).
Try adding the following to your services file [1]:
pop3s 995/tcp #POP3 SSL
YMMV, the above worked for me, but unfortunately not for another Cygwin
user:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00484.html
> Thanks so much.
You are quite welcome.
Jason
[1] The services file is located on my system in:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\services
Note the location could be different on your system.
Jason
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