Re: [orca-list] fetchmailrc permissions

["Glenn K0LNY" <glennervin cableone net>]

Hi,
Okay, so that solved the owning problem.
but I still get errors connecting, and I followed a fetchmailrc file, I'll 
show my file and the error below, hoping someone may know something about 
fetchmail.
Thanks.
fetchmailrc file:

poll mail.cableone.net protocol pop3 username "glennervin" password 
"NotGlenn'sPassword"

The error I get:

ubuntu-mate@ubuntu-mate:~/Documents$ fetchmail 
graphic 545 5674 messages for glennervin at mail.cableone.net (292177038
octets).
fetchmail: Connection errors for this poll:
name 0: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed: Connection 
refused.
fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from 
glennervin@mail.cableone.ngraphic 733 et and delivering to SMTP host 
localhost

reading message glennervin mail cableone syn-alias com:1 of 5674 (43767 
octets)fgraphic 186 etchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)

ubuntu-mate@ubuntu-mate:~/Documents$ 
graphic 932
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel panix com>
To: "Glenn K0LNY" <glennervin cableone net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] fetchmailrc permissions


Were you in ubuntu-mate when you created this file?  If no, then you'll
need to be root and run something like:
chown ubuntu-mate /home/ubuntu-mate/.fetchmailrc
Since your cableone user name is not ubuntu-mate a line like:
userk0LNY there is ubuntu-user here
needs to be in your .fetchmailrc file too.


On Wed, 19 May 2021, Glenn K0LNY wrote:

> Hi,
> with my .fetchmailrc file in my home folder, and permissions of 600, 
> running fetchmail tells me that .fetchmailrc must be owned by me.
> The user name I'm using is ubuntu-mate, and that is not the name of the 
> mail account I'm trying to access.
> Is that the problem here, or is that message related to something else?
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Glenn