Am 18.08.26 um 09:41 schrieb mick.crane:
On 2026-08-18 06:09, Roger Price wrote:
On Mon, 17 Aug 2026, Chime Hart wrote:
Well, Roger, while I think my issue is fetchmail related, maybe you will know?
For at least 2years while getting an imap receiving FastMail, mail in Alpine is
ending up in a separate fastmail folder instead of incoming folders as an
inbox. Here in Debian SID my fetchmail is in /usr/bin/fetchmail. If you have
any suggestions, please pass them along. Thanks so much in advance
Chime
I suggest starting a new thread with a new subject line.
It would be helpful if you showed us your configuration file.
What is your Mail Transfer Agent ? Run this command and show us your result :
root@titan ~ ss -tlpn sport 25
State Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port Process
LISTEN 0 20 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:*
users:(("exim4",pid=1573,fd=5))
LISTEN 0 20 [::1]:25 [::]:*
users:(("exim4",pid=1573,fd=6))
It might be useful to show us the output of systemctl status <pid>, (1573 in my
case).
Roger
Yesterday I updated bookworm to trixie and unfortunately selected 'keep the old
configuration file' for a few dovecot conf files.
This caused dovecot to refuse to start.
Fortunately apt kept the new files with the extension "ucf-dist" and with the
help of the AI was able to locate the faults and put things back together.
At one stage getmail was sending mail to dovecot deliver OK but deliver was
putting mail in the wrong place.
This seems similar to the problem cited so I thought I'd mention it.
This might rather be a third thread. I suspect that this is related to the
changes in configuration syntax by dovecot. Debian Trixie release notes say
something about dovecot [1]. As the release notes also say, more information
directly from dovecot is here [2]. I myself didn't switch my server running
dovecot to trixie yet, I didn't get around to implementing and testing a new
dovecot configuration, the syntax changes didn't seem trivial.
I learned that is important to read release notes the hard way. But it really
is worth while doing.
Paul
[1]
https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.html#dovecot-configuration-changes
[2] https://doc.dovecot.org/main/installation/upgrade/2.3-to-2.4.html
