fetchmail

Discussion in 'Programming/Scripts' started by skylark1021, Sep 7, 2019.

  1. skylark1021

    skylark1021 New Member

    Hi!
    I want to use fetchmail to retrieve my mail. I'm using VM by vagrant. I put a .fetchmailrc file in my home directory, which looks like this:

    poll imap.gmail.com
    protocol IMAP
    auth password
    user "mygmailaccount" is vagrant here
    password "mypassword"
    keep
    ssl
    mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f %F -d %T"

    when i use fetchmail command, I always get an error:

    fetchmail: no mailserver has been specified.

    how can I fix it? I've searched for two days and I cannot find any answer. Please, help! c:
     
  2. Taleman

    Taleman Well-Known Member HowtoForge Supporter

    I think your .fetchmailrc has wrong syntax. I have used fetchmailconf go create my .fetchmailrc, then the syntax is automatically correct. Maybe fetchmailconf is available for your OS? If not, install it somewhere else, run it and copy the .fetchmailrc.
    If that is not possible, use Internet Search Engines to find docs on how to write .fetchmailrc.
     

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