fetchmail from verizon

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:03:36 -0500
"dan moylan" <jdm at moylan.info> wrote:

> 
> when i try to collect mail from verizon.net, fetchmail times
> out.  do i need some special authentication?  .fetchmailrc
> looks like this:
> 
> # fchmai.ver
> # 060604
> 
>   poll verizon.net      protocol pop3
>     user "jdm34"        with pass "......."    is "moylan"  here
>     user "memoylan"     with pass "......."    is "emoylan" here
>   smtp localhost
This is one of addresses I use for Comcast. No quotes:
poll mail.comcast.net with proto POP3 user myusernameoncomcast is
myusername pass mypass fetchall ssl

Some ISPs require a specific host name. Note that I use
mail.comcast.net which is Comcast's POP3 server. I also use ssl.
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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