Hello,
I am getting the following error with fetchmail :

[root@saamail varun]# service fetchmail stop
[root@saamail varun]# fetchmail -v -f /etc/fetchmailrc
fetchmail:/etc/fetchmailrc:6: syntax error at poll
[root@saamail varun]# service fetchmail start
Starting Fetchmail services: fetchmail:/etc/fetchmailrc:6: syntax error at poll
[FAILED]


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My /ect/fetchmailrc file :


# Put here each user config
set postmaster varun
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties
poll mail.sriaurobindoashram.com with proto POP3
user 'varun' there with password '******' is 'varun' here
options fetchall antispam 501
poll mail.vsnl.net with proto POP3 interval 2
user 'varun_saa' there with password '********' is 'varun_saa' here
options fetchall antispam 501

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Any idea why I am getting this error ?

Thanks

Varun

I can not see what is wrong with your config, but I thought I whould post mine that works just incease it would help:

Thanks ,
It is " set properties "" ".
If you have " " after set properties it does not give any
error.

Though I have not that in any tutorials.

So do you have any explaination for that ?

Varun

I don't have a set properties line at all, but I am using an old version in Mandrake 9.1 on my server. I wonder what function it has? A quick Google finds others with the same question and no definite answers, other than when present it should be set to ""