Re: [OCLUG-Tech] formail / fetchmail issue -- getting certificate

2015-04-16 Thread Prof J C Nash (U30A)
Permissions on directory reset as per Alex' warning. I'll look into getting the certificate, noting that many sites I go to these days squawk about outdated or missing ones. A good tutorial on how to get them and where to put them would be valuable. There was a question about knowledge of PKI --

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] formail / fetchmail issue

2015-04-16 Thread Alex Pilon
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 02:11:10PM -0400, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote: > I've tried 777 perms for umail and umail/inbox file. Don't do that. Not only is it likely irrelevant, but it's a terrible idea, securitywise. The magic everybody has access perms is not something you should do blindly. Notice

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] formail / fetchmail issue

2015-04-16 Thread Prof J C Nash (U30A)
Dumb error -- on that machine I'm nashjc, on others I'm john, so I need /home/nashjc/umail/inbox and it works fine. Aidan's reply presented the filename clearly. JN On 15-04-16 02:38 PM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote: > This looks like the error: > /home/john/umail/inbox: No such file or directory >

[OCLUG-Tech] formail / fetchmail issue

2015-04-16 Thread Prof J C Nash (U30A)
I recently had some issues with my research (virtual) server at uOttawa. As it was Ubuntu 12.04 decided to upgrade. Telfer "standard" is now Centos 7, and I decided to go with that. However, I'm finding that I'm getting an error when I do some email backups using fetchmail, particularly in the MDA