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Date: | Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:08:23 -0500 |
From: | Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net> |
Subject: | Re: fetchmail and cygwin |
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Gary, Please see the following: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 03:23:19PM -0800, gary marbach wrote: > Hi. I'm a newb at trying to use Cygwin and fetchmail. I was checking > out an article on Cygwin and it seemed like something that could help > me get my email data out of gmail...so, I thought I'd give it a try > with Fetchmail. I'm sure I've messed up the setup somewhere, based on > the result I'm getting back when I execute the Cygwin command to start > up fetchmail. I was hoping you could help me figure out what I've > messed up on? > > The contents of my .FETCHMAILRC file are: > poll imap.aol.com with proto POP3 and options no dns > user paulinemarbach with password xxx is Owner here options ssl > > The result of my query is what I have stored in the attached JPG file > (hope that presenting it that way is acceptable). The preferred way is to cut and paste the text -- there was no need to use an image to convey the pertinent information. For the archives, the following was the error message: fetchmail: getaddrinfo("imap.aol.com","pop3s") error: nodename nor servname provided, or not known > When you get a second, could you see if I've done something obviously > incorrect? I also tried it against my gmail account and that also did > not work (same failure). Try adding the following to your services file [1]: pop3s 995/tcp #POP3 SSL YMMV, the above worked for me, but unfortunately not for another Cygwin user: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00484.html > Thanks so much. You are quite welcome. Jason [1] The services file is located on my system in: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\services Note the location could be different on your system. Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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