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To: balug-talk@balug.org From: Joe Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu> Subject: [Balug-talk] using mh with a pop server Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 20:23:31 -0800 I just signed up with a DSL provider again recently (rawbandwidth) and I'm trying to get the mh mailer working with their POP & SMTP servers. I can get Mozilla mail working okay, so you'd think it wouldn't be that hard. In my ~/.netrc I have the one line: machine pop.rawbw.com login doom password XXXXXX And in the shell, I've been trying to do many variations of things like this: inc -user doom -host pop.rawbw.com But I continually get this error message: inc: -ERR [AUTH] Password supplied for "doom" is incorrect. Also, my /etc/nmh/mts.conf file also has the lines: # Hardcoded POP server name (prevents inc'ing from local mail spool). pophost: pop.rawbw.com. # List of smtp servers to try if using smtp support servers: smtp.rawbw.com So as I understand it, a raw "inc" should work as well, but I just get the same error message. Anyone have any ideas? === Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] using mh with a pop server From: Joe Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu> Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 20:50:35 -0800 Just got the answer to my own question (from the excellent tech support folks at rawbandwidth): I needed to fix the permissions on my .netrc. All it took was: chmod o-w .netrc Funny, I'd been getting a warning message about that, but I was presuming it was just a warning (I guess I was assuming it wasn't a fatal error, or else it wouldn't have gone on to give me an AUTH error also). I was actually happy when I saw messages like this: inc: Error: .netrc file is readable by others. inc: Remove password or make file unreadable by others. because that meant that at least it was *seeing* the .netrc file. ===