Re: fetchmail failing in fetching mail from a pop server

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
turday 23 November 2002 3:45 pm, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote: > > > Addionaly a helpful person had sent me his configuration, > > unfortunatly he's no on the list anymore. > > What he uses was a system fetchmailrc with this line: > > mda "/usr/sbin/exim -oMr fetchma

Re: fetchmail failing in fetching mail from a pop server

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
EMAIL PROTECTED] rland #***.**fetchmail: message 5 was not the expected length (3839 actual != 3746 expected) not flushed .. " What was that doubling you mentioned a few days ago? Robert Elizabeth Barham wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Wilhelm La

Re: fetchmail failing in fetching mail from a pop server

2002-11-23 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Robert Elizabeth Barham wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Wilhelm Land) writes: > The file below shows errors relating to unexpected message > lengths. Could it have something to do with the > missing options exim is complaining about? > > Any help is grately appreciated Probabl

fetchmail failing in fetching mail from a pop server

2002-11-22 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Fetchmail reports a rather wierd looking error trying to fetch mail from my only pop account I have (mozilla does well though): To get exim running .fetcmailrc containes: mda /usr/sbin/exim. The test I ran 2 times was: rland@MINI:~$ fetchmail -k -vv >> fetch2.test fetchmail: Command not supporte

Re: fetchmail shows a weird behaviour

2002-10-18 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Edward Guldemond wrote: Do you have exim configured for local delivery? Procmail can only fetch the mail, it then kicks it to the local MDA from delivery. Actually I didn't want to get that far on the first step. My intention was just to retrieve all new mail on the pop3 server via -k (keep) op

fetchmail shows a weird behaviour

2002-10-18 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Trying to set up my mail system using fetchmail and testing for the first time by: fetchmail -k -vv I got a error and no messages in /var/spool/mail/fr only a   /home/rland/.fetchids file. these are the last lines the debug information gave out: fetchmail: POP3< 9 2469 fetchmail: POP3< 10 2309

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
David wrote: > > > There is support for multiple user mailboxes controlled by prefixes or > >     suffixes on the user name, either via the filter mechanism or through > i>     multiple .forward files. > > Exim (or at least 3.35) can distribute mail to different mailboxes. If > I understand som

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-14 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Jens Grivolla wrote: > > So you want to _receive_ mail with exim on a machine that is only > temporarily connected to the internet? > > This is possible if you know what you're doing (and have a permanently > connected machine elsewhere that relays to you). However, it does not > really look li

using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-14 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Does exim allow the config. of simple mail delivery on the following system?: -One mashine, connected tmp. to the internet -one user with only one email adress and   who likes to have his incoming mail sorted as:    +one inbox for each subscribed maillist    +one inbox for all the other mail Unf

Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > Mutt should read /etc/Muttrc first, then your ~/.muttrc , so your > personal settings will override anything in /etc/Muttrc. The /etc/Muttrc file was the one that confused. Unfortunately I didn't recognized that this file  w a s  on HDD. After failed I didn't think of

using locate properly

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
This could be more a question of bash fundamentals: By trying to find Muttrc on my HDD I used the locate program. This was the command I ueed: rland@MINI:~$ locate [Mm]uttrc ... no reaction. Rereading the info gave me: " Patterns can contain shell-style metacharacters:       &pi0;*', &pi0;?',

Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Does mutt read anything else in your .muttrc ? Can't tell yet - I'm very new to all this and thought of sending and replying mail on localhost. There arn't any other settings in ~/.muttrc which I could test. > When running mutt, what does it give you if you type > > :se

Re: Xwindow problems ASUS A7N266-VM board (nForce)

2002-10-07 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Cam Ellison wrote: > > Well, after some fiddling around, and downloading and installing > 2.4.19, it's all working like a hot dam. Thanks for your re Cam. I'm very interested in this board aswell. Are you usingthe USB2.0 (not USB1.0 modi) interfaces? Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-07 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Jack O'Quin wrote: > > Carel Fellinger writes: > > > There is a space in the command, so you need quotes, try : > > > > set editor="emacs -nw" Sorry, this doesn't seem to work - even wouldn't do. In both cases, mutt overrides these settings in .muttrc and uses vi for composing mail. Irritat

debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-07 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
On the way trying to convince mutt to use emacs -nw instead of vi by editing .muttrc as: set editor=emacs -nw ...which didn't work - I came across a whole bunch of links related to emacs: rland@MINI:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/emacs lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           23 Feb 12  2001 /usr/bin/emacs -

Re: On Learning Debian

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > I added USB to my 2.4.18 kernel not long ago to support an unsupported web > cam. When I say unsupported, I mean really unsupported by the manufacture! > They don't even support M$ users. A fellow M$ user gave it to me when he > couldn't get it to work on his

Re: What are these groups for?

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Michael Heironimus wrote: > > That wouldn't do what you want. Only root has permission to reboot/halt > the machine (for obvious reasons). I suppose that if you really wanted > to do that you could make halt setuid root and make it only executable > by owner and group, but I really wouldn't recom

Re: What are these groups for?

2002-10-02 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Thanks to Joey and Michael, I didn't find this information in any documentery yet. "Running Linux" from Matt Welsh is often quite helpful in these kind of questions but doesn't seem to cover this topic. Would it be a mess to change the halt script from root.root to root.adm and add my self to adm

What are these groups for?

2002-10-02 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Would someone kindly explain  when the following groups should be used? bin:*:2: sys:*:3: adm:*:4: kmem:*:15: staff:*:50: www-data:*:33: dip:*:30: uucp:*:10: irc:*:39: (Recently I created a new group and wondered why my dialout system didn't work since the debian isdn package style affords the w

mysterious keybinding failures on fvwm2

2002-10-02 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
system.fvwm2rc: AddToMenu Window-Ops "Alt-F1: Window Ops" Title + "Alt-F5:  Calculator"                  exec calctool & + "Alt-F6:  lynx"                        exec lynx & + "Alt-F8:  xterm"                       exec xterm & + "Alt-F12: emacs -nw"                   exec emacs -nw & # Sectio

XFree failure on some occasions

2002-10-02 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Tabbing between different windows does not work, mostly after launching lynx or a info documentery. Can only be reseted after clicking on the desktop wallpaper. Mozilla causes the Alt-cursor  switching between different desktops (this system has nine of them) to fail. Clicking on the pager works

Re: Some questions about file permissions

2002-10-01 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Colin Watson wrote: > > The info documentation for ls says this: > > &pi0;s' > If the setuid or setgid bit and the corresponding executable > bit are both set. > > &pi0;S' > If the setuid or setgid bit is set but the corresponding > executable bit

Some questions about file permissions

2002-10-01 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
I would grately appreciate some help in understanding file permissions. The first one is the lower and uppercase 's' in: drwxr-sr-x    2 rland    rland        4096 Jun  4 11:43 files drwx--S---    2 rland    rland        4096 Sep 27  2001 nsmail Then, some file permission strings have a  'b' (=