On 02 Apr 2009, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Thu April 2 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Probably not an answer to the OP, but when I was having trouble with > > fetchmail a year ago I changed to getmail and the problems went away > > immediately. It's easier to configure and more reliable. > > I just recently setup fetchmail on my lenny box. Went to the Falko HOW-TO on > sourceforge, copied one of his lines for fetchmailrc, changed it to my info, > added the rest of my emails, domain & ISP, and all my mail started coming in > to my local user account!. It changed my kmail setup to 1 account, from 8. > What was easier about getmail? >
It was a year ago and I don't remember the details. But when I wanted to access my emails from abroad I had difficulty getting fetchmail to send my password and connect to the mail server, but getmail did it immediately. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
