[GLLUG] Fetchmail and mail.msu.edu

[Dennis Pipper]

Dan,

did that too.  It didn't make a difference.  Maybe I will try upgrading
fetchmail (eek!)  It has been running smooth for almost a year now.

Oh well, sound like a weekend project is brewing....



> Hey, the following .fetchmailrc works for me:
>
> poll mail.msu.edu protocol pop3 no dns username "me" password "secret"
> is "dan" here options fetchall ssl
>
> I had to throw the no dns in because one of my first email messages was
> a spam on which it couldn't do the dns lookup of the claimed hostname,
> so fetchmail would sit and just hang there.  When I converted, there
> were a couple of messages (both spam I think) that were a pain, one
> because of that dns lookup, the other was something or other about
> invalid characters in the address of the From: field, I had to manually
> remove that one via the webmail interface, but it's been fine since. For
> what it's worth I'm running:
>
> This is fetchmail release 6.2.0+POP2+RPA+SDPS+SSL+OPIE+INET6+NLS
>
> -Dan
>