[NCLUG] Fetchmail

[J. Paul Reed]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Chris Funk wrote:

> When I run fetchmail ($ fetchmail -u myusername -c -p pop3 mail.attbi.com)
> I get prompted for a password  for myusername at mail.attbi.com  then it just
> sits there for several minutes and times out with a
> fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting to connect to server
> mail.attbi.com.
> fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from
> mail.attbi.com
>
> I don't see any rejects from my firewall in the logs.
> Any ideas on what I can try?

What does 'telnet mail.attbi.com 110' give you?

If you get an answer, try typing:

user <username>
pass <password>

and see if you get in.

In either case, just type 'quit' when you're done.

Later,
Paul
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