Topic: pop mail problems

[RecylerMan]

I have been trying to get the mail to work on a sme5.5 server I have at home It will not pick up the mail from any pop account on its own the first error I get is

fetchmail:-:12: parse error at fetchall
/etc/startmail:
: command not found

as a cron email If i edit the /etc/fetchmail script I get

/etc/startmail:
: command not found

I can manualy get the fetchmail script to work  and it does work  by changing the

# multi-drop configuration; fetchmail retrieves all mail from a remote POP mailbox:

/usr/bin/fetchmail --syslog --silent --fetchmailrc - <
set postmaster "postmaster@mongo.cooze.co.nz"
set bouncemail
set properties ""

poll pop.ihug.co.nz
    protocol POP3
    no dns
    localdomains mongo.cooze.co.nz
       username "ricoh30" password "xxxxxxxxx" to * here
           smtphost $SMTP
           fetchall
           forcecr

EOF

8><
    no dns
    localdomains mongo.cooze.co.nz
       username "ricoh30" password "xxxxxxxx" to * here
           smtphost mail.mongo.cooze.co.nz
           fetchall
           forcecr

EOF

so where is the problem? what would be the sujested fix I have also tryed modifing the /etc/e-smih/templates/custom and then I get the second errot of command not found

[rick]

Not sure exactly what your setup is but the default mail client in my experience will only pickup the pop3 mail that actually belongs to the account that you are connecting with, if you want to pickup pop3 mail other than the account that belongs to your connecting isp than you need one of the multipop contribs, do a search on multipop and you will find plenty of info on this.

Hope this is of some help.

[geoff]

I have had the same problem with v5.5 refusing to clear POP boxes.
Fixed by upgrading to v5.6

[RecylerMan]

Thanks to all who replyed the mutipop software fixed the probs It is just now it still says command not found but I have mailfilterd the message from setup on one of the terminals

Thanks