Re: fetchmail as a POP3 server

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Lox Thomson wrote:
> I setup my postfix/sasl and everything is working great. I'm on a
> RedHat FC2 machine. When I installed it forced the installation of
> sendmail and fetchmail. I force rpm uninstalled sendmail...that seemed
> to have deleted the fetchmail server information within /etc/rc.d/init.d
> directory. Now I can't start the fetchmail server. I have set aside
> today to get this running. Astonishingly enough, I go out searching and
> fetchmail info on the net exclusively explains how to use fetchmail to
> get mail from a pop3 server but never how to set it up AS a POP3
> server. Can someone help me? Fetchmail POP3 is satisfactory for
> me....I need this server up and running. I hate to have to try to setup
> IMAP from scratch at this point...maybe later.
>
> What I am asking for is:
>
> What are the contents of the fetchmail file within the /etc/rc.d/init.d
> directory on a REdhat9, FC1, FC2, or FC3 server?
> Where on the net or can you provide me instructions, on how to setup
> fetchmail as a POP3 server?
>
> I have fetchmail 6.2.5-2 installed by rpm by fedora core 2.
>
> Any quick explaination would be really helpful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Lox
> admin for action-unltd.com

Astonishingly, my dog's leash does not dispense dental floss.
Fetchmail does exactly that. It fetches mail from a pop3 server. It
is not a pop3 server.

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