On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:

I got it to go and get mail from my freeserve account nae bother, but am having more difficulty with the new uklinux account. Does anyone have an account with uklinux and also have a fetchmailrc file they could send me a sample of the lines to put in for them?

What lines are you trying? Something like this ought to work:

poll mail.uklinux.net protocol pop3 user <user> password <password>, is <local account name> here, fetchall;

I am turned down on username or password not valid.

It's possibly not fetchmail's fault. It's worth trying things the 'really manual' way to make absolutely sure the details you're sending to uklinux are correct:

Try this (only type lines with a $ at the start, and don't include the $)

$ telnet mail.uklinux.net pop3 Trying 80.84.72.21... Connected to mail.uklinux.net. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Cubic Circle's v1.31 1998/05/13 POP3 ready 133b000008f70d3c@s1.uklinux.net $ USER <insert your username here> +OK $ PASS <insert your password here> +OK

If you don't receive a "+OK" to your username and password, then it's not fetchmail's fault, it's an account details error!

Andrew.