On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 02:10:08PM -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: > it also says unknown token for "timeout" > version is 6.3.24 and man page says timeout is valid as a token. > > Jerry > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 2:04 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Anyone know how to specify for fetchmail in .netrc the "folder" to read ? > > > > If tried folder XYZ > > and it says unknown token folder. > > Man page says that should work. > > > > Jerry > > I assume the manpage you reference is fetchmail's. If my reading is correct, the only thing(s) that fetchmail will get from .netrc is the user & password for a host it will access. The rest of the stuff should got into ~/.fetchmailrc. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie jon at jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)