solved: fetchmail (package) for testing

2006-05-02 Thread lee
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 07:58:08PM +0200, lee wrote: > searching for a package providing fetchmail for testing didn't show up > any packages. What's the way to go? As suggested, I installed the fetchmail package from stable, and it works nicely :) It only needs two entries added to /etc/aliases

Re: fetchmail (package) for testing

2006-04-29 Thread lee
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:45:40PM -0500, Forrest Smith wrote: > > Since I had some fun to find out how to configure fetchmail to use > > the > > ?? Did you use fetchmailconf ?? Afair I tried, but with no good results. I had to use a tricky combination of 'aka' and 'via' statements, and the 'env

Re: fetchmail (package) for testing

2006-04-29 Thread lee
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 02:14:20PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > i generally have, for testing and unstable machines, 'stable' (actually > the name, ie. sarge) in my sources.list. usually this works ok for > instances like this. Christopher, Matt, thanks for you input! Fetchmail is still runn

Re: fetchmail (package) for testing

2006-04-26 Thread Forrest Smith
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 07:58:08PM +0200, lee wrote: > Hi, > > searching for a package providing fetchmail for testing didn't show up > any packages. What's the way to go? I'm running the same version of fetchmail that's in stable now on my testing box. Forrest > > + use a replacement like

Re: fetchmail (package) for testing

2006-04-26 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
> > + try installing the version from stable > > This may or may not work, it doesn't seem to have any explicit version > number depends, but I can't gaurantee the packages in testing are named > the same. i generally have, for testing and unstable machines, 'stable' (actually the name, ie. sarg

Re: fetchmail (package) for testing

2006-04-26 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 07:58:08PM +0200, lee wrote: > Hi, > > searching for a package providing fetchmail for testing didn't show up > any packages. What's the way to go? Checking packages.debian.org confirms this. > + use a replacement like getmail4 This will work if you have to get mail now

fetchmail (package) for testing

2006-04-26 Thread lee
Hi, searching for a package providing fetchmail for testing didn't show up any packages. What's the way to go? + use a replacement like getmail4 + try installing the version from stable + wait for a version for testing + get the source and compile myselfe Since I had some fun to find out how t