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Re: [fetchmail] fetchmail won't retrieve messages

2003-02-27 14:26:19
Rob MacGregor wrote:

From: Phil Newcombe <philn(_at_)telus(_dot_)net>

'fetchmail -v' indicates connection OK but when it attempts to retrieve a message it hangs - not like in the FAQ - no error messages, just hangs.

Any ideas?  Permissions?


Details, details!

Version of fetchmail, contents of fetchmailrc, output of "fetchmail -v -v", what OS, what's your local mail server?

Thanks Rob; I think my fetchmail is working now, sort of - it fetched my mail but then made it disappear. I'm using debian 3 stable (woody), fetchmail, exim and mutt. I know very little about this but I think I'm actually having a mail/box/drop/directory problem. I have mailboxes all over the place and MAIL_PATHs pointing everywhere - (grep mail /etc.) it's took me a week of pouring over man pages, manuals, howtos, etc. before I even discovered the concept of the queue runner!

Ah well that's the fun of Linux.

phil n

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