I recently re-installed a slink system from scratch on my home computer (I'm no expert) after a failed attempt to install potato, but can no longer get incoming mail.
Fetchmail dies with something like the following: fetchmail: POP3< 9 562 fetchmail: POP3< . 9 messages for davidj at pop3.web.de (8864 octets). fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3< +OK Nachricht folgt/message follows reading message 1 of 9 (2297 octets) fetchmail: realloc failed followed by 'Segmentation fault'. It leaves a file named '.fetchmail.pid', 'a lockfile to prevent concurrent runs' as I'm told by the manpage. Exim (/var/log/exim/mainlog) doesn't report anything happening. Exim was configured using eximconfig, option 1, with the manual addition of local_domains = tapie:localhost tapie being the name I gave to the computer. The only thing I entered during eximconfig was a user name for the postmaster (dave). I was a bit suspicious of the following entries in /etc/aliases: postmaster: root root: dave root: root but changing them to postmaster: dave or postmaster: dave root: root didn't help. Fetchmail is set up to get mail from several servers, but it segfaults at the first one that actually has mail. When I run fetchmail for the first time after a re-installation - I've done a few in the last day or so - I think it reports an SMTP error and continues. (Unfortunately I always forget to put a 2>errfile in the command, so I only see the lines flying by.) Incidentally, exim works perfectly for outgoing mail, rewrites 'n'all. And the whole thing worked before I re-installed - from the same CDs. I'd be most grateful if someone could point me in the direction of a solution - which I'll have to pick up on the dark side of my box :{ David