Topic: cant retreive pop3 mail

[Ian]

Hi all

i use SME 5.5 i am trying to collect mail from a multidrop mailbox . When running /usr/bin/fetchmail -c from the command line i get the following error "fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified"

i get the same mesage in my /var/log/messages

thx

ian

[Matt Q]

This may sound like a stupid question, but have you set the mail server and other such settings in the server-manager (http://servername.com/server-manager)? That would certainly do the trick...

Matt

[Michael Freksen]

Had the same problem. Installed SquirrelMail, works great. Look here : http://server31.hypermart.net/tymiles/

[Ian]

yeah im sure i did but i will double check ... pretty new to this so i will let u know thx

[Ian]

thx michael if i dont come right i will try that. cheers

[Marco]

Hello

I got exactly the same errors and i am working on that  for a long time now.
I would like to know if when you go to server manager
Maillog do you have something like that

Mail Log File Analysis

Report generated: Wed Jan 15 21:51:51 2003
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