Fetchmail socket problem

[jdow]

From: "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk>

> On Sunday 22 Jan 2006 23:22, jdow wrote:
>>
>> OK, after reading this it is quite obvious you don't understand how
>> imap works. Fetchmail is not the right tool for this job, or at least
>> it will be a royal pita to use.
>>
>> There is a solution. Now, I'm doing this from my viewpoint in Outlook
>> Express on an XP machine connected to the Linux machine. With OE the
>> task is really simple. With other tools YMMV.
>>
> That's exactly what I have done on this box, which is the  one I mainly
> read from.
>
>> What I do is create two accounts in OE. One for each machine. I
>> create all the IMAP folders on the second machine that already exist
>> on the first machine. Then I highlight all the contents of each
>> folder in order and copy them to the corresponding folder on the
>> second machine. With enough boring folder pair copies it's done and
>> Bob's your uncle.
>>
> Yes, I copied the messages from one folder across in exactly that way.
> It works and I can read them both from the second account on this box
> and from the temporary server, so I'm happy that dovecot is working.
>
>> (I really SHOULD read back to see the original question sometimes.)
>>
> My problem now is that I'm not able to pull mail in from my isp.  I
> don't run my own mailserver, only imap for the lan.

OK, is your ISP working via pop3 or via imap for your mail?

For pop3 harken back to a prior rock of mine to see what a typical
session would look like. In my case for Earthlink it'd be something
a little different:
===8<---
$ telnet pop.earthlink.net pop3
Trying 209.86.93.201...
Connected to pop.earthlink.net (209.86.93.201).
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK NGPopper vEL_6_10 at earthlink.net ready 
<17601.1138013724 at pop-sarus.atl.sa.earthlink.net>
user XXXXXXXXXXXX
+OK
pass XXXXXXXXXXXX
+OK XXXXXXXXXX has 0 messages (0 octets).
quit
+OK
Connection closed by foreign host.
===8<---
The .fetchmailrc in my own directory looks like this at the moment:
===8<--defaults mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d jdow"
#set postmaster "jdow"
set syslog
set postmaster ""
set no bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
#set daemon 60
#set logfile fetchmail_el.log
poll smtp.earthlink.net with proto POP3
   user 'XXXXXXXX' there with password 'XXXXXXXX'
   is 'xxxx at xxxx.xxx.xxx' here options pass8bits
   smtpaddress '      '
poll smtp.earthlink.net with proto POP3
   user 'YYYYYYYY' there with password 'YYYYYYYY'
   is 'xxxx at xxxx.xxx.xxx' here options pass8bits
   smtpaddress '      '
===8<---
I start the fetchmail as my own user account, XXXXXXXX, with this command:
/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 90 --fetchmailrc /home/XXXXXXXX/.fetchmailrc

Fill in the same information you used to use for the username and password.
Some ISPs may want you to use xxx at my_silly_isp.net type format for the
username. Then you need the password. Sadly, fetchmail does not store this
encrypted.

(I'm heading off to bed now. So I won't be able to follow up for "several
hours".)

{^_^}