Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 02:50:30PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: +OK Pop server at jorel.newsguy.com signing off. Connection closed by foreign host. At a successfull login you can use commands like list, retr 1, dele 3. I'm afraid I have been screeching wolf when its only a very

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes: On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 14:50:30 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: The oldhost is running exim4 light, while newhost is running exim4-heavy. Exim is only involved after the mail is collected. But still the configuration files look the same.. I'm not seeing a

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-13 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/14/14, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes: On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 14:50:30 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: The oldhost is running exim4 light, while newhost is running exim4-heavy. Exim is only involved after the mail is collected. But still the

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-12 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/12/14, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net writes: Use getmail. I have used mpop. getmail maintainer lurks around here, so that's what I'm planning to use when I next stop pop DLing. No thanks. Fetchmail should be working. I really doubt that

Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm having a problem with fetchmail. Something that has not arisen in some 15 yrs of linux use. This post is a tad bit verbose... but it seemed necessary to make it clear why I am somewhat flummoxed. Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet: I've been moving my main work host, (Debian jessie),

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Use getmail. I have used mpop. getmail maintainer lurks around here, so that's what I'm planning to use when I next stop pop DLing. They are incredibly faster. Good luck :) Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread AW
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet: I've been moving my main work host, (Debian jessie), to a vm running on a windows hosts. Did you ensure the fetchmail daemon is running? ps -A |grep fetchmail It's possible

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread AW
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:24:06 -0400 AW debian.list.trac...@1024bits.com wrote: It's possible you will need to enable the service daemon... sudo systemctl enable fetchmail in order for it to start on host boot. And I forgot about the /etc/default/fetchmail Make sure START_DAEMON=yes

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Harry Putnam
AW debian.list.trac...@1024bits.com writes: On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet: I've been moving my main work host, (Debian jessie), to a vm running on a windows hosts. Did you ensure the fetchmail daemon

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net writes: Use getmail. I have used mpop. getmail maintainer lurks around here, so that's what I'm planning to use when I next stop pop DLing. No thanks. Fetchmail should be working. I really doubt that fetchmail itself is the problem. And just for the

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 11:25:52 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: AW debian.list.trac...@1024bits.com writes: On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet: I've been moving my main work host, (Debian jessie), to a vm

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes: On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 11:25:52 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: AW debian.list.trac...@1024bits.com writes: On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet: I've been moving my main

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread AW
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 11:25:52 -0400 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: And yet something seems to be causing the verbose setting to produce insufficient output on the new host. harry fetchmail -vvvac fetchmail: Old UID list from pop.newsguy.com: empty fetchmail: Old UID list

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 14:50:30 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: The oldhost is running exim4 light, while newhost is running exim4-heavy. Exim is only involved after the mail is collected. But still the configuration files look the same.. I'm not seeing a reason why one is more verbose than the