POP from gmail using fetchmail

[Gordon]

http://freepops.sf.net or www.freepops.org is an nice webmail -> POP 
proxy server

It works for grabbing yahoo(!spam!) and hot(spam)mail, but I know it'll 
do gmail too (I used it for gmail before I realized it had free POP 
service).

Just an alternative in case pop won't work for some obscure reason.
  G


Lynn David Newton wrote:

>Does anyone know the correct way to make POP3 retrieve
>email from a gmail.com account using fetchmail?
>
>BTW, I'm using SuSE 9.2.
>
>I use the fetchmail daemon to retrieve email. Works
>fine, always has.
>
>fetchmail sends retrieved mail to be filtered by
>procmail, which I then pick up and read using XEmacs
>(the VM package). I don't use Thunderbird or one of the
>more commonly used email clients. That should not be a
>factor, because the problem has to do simply with
>getting the mail from my account at gmail.com to here,
>not with filtering and reading it.
>
>A line like this is in my fetchmail configuration file
>
>poll "pop.gmail.com" protocol POP3 : user "NOTMYREALGMAILUSERNAME" there with password "NOTMYREALPASSWORD" is "NOTMYREALLOCALUSERNAME" here ;
>
>This follows exactly the model of the other lines I've
>used for years that *do* work.
>
>Upon restarting the fetchmail daemon, the log file
>(/var/log/fetchmail) shows lines of this type:
>
>fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting to connect to server pop.gmail.com.
>fetchmail: socket error while fetching from pop.gmail.com
>
>Yes, I have followed the instructions shown at:
>
>https://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13273
>
>And according to the instructions in
>
>https://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13285
>
>pop.gmail.com *is* the correct system to poll according
>to that (unless I've misread it). Also, I can ping that
>address.
>
>I don't know what to do next, except probably to
>disable that line for now, because if I'm polling every
>60 seconds and they're taking 300 seconds to time out,
>somewhere along the line there might be requests
>stacking up.
>
>Help!?? Thank you.
>
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