Topic: fetchmail:-:7: parse error at protocol - I get this after up

[Pistonpilot]

I'm getting multiple cron messages to root saying:

fetchmail:-:7: parse error at protocol

This is now happening after I've updated my 6.03b to 6.0 non beta after applying the updates.  

What does it mean?

[Pistonpilot]

On closer examination, I looked at  /etc/startmail

It gives me the cron mail every 15 minutes - fetchmail file is at the end.

login as: root
Sent username "root"
root@192.168.0.253's password:
Last login: Thu Oct 30 15:58:17 2003
Welcome to the Mitel Networks SME Server.
[root@e-smith root]# service fetchmail status
fetchmail: unrecognized service
[root@e-smith root]# cd /etc

[root@e-smith etc]# less /etc/startmail
#!/bin/sh
#------------------------------------------------------------
# DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It is updated automatically by the
# SME Server software. Instead, modify the source template in
# an /etc/e-smith/templates-custom directory. For more
# information, see http://www.e-smith.org/custom/
#
# copyright (C) 1999-2003 Mitel Networks Corporation
#------------------------------------------------------------






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

/usr/bin/fetchmail --syslog --silent --auth password --fetchmailrc - <
set postmaster "postmaster@pc-man.com"
set bouncemail
set properties ""

poll
    protocol POP3
    no dns
    localdomains pc-man.com pc-man.com
       username "" password "" to * here
           smtphost localhost
           fetchall
           forcecr

EOF
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