Monte Milanuk wrote: > > Hello all, > > I've recently started using Debian 2.2, and I'm having a few weird mail > issues popping up. If anyone could provide some assistance, or nudge me > in the direction of some specific spot in the documentation, I'd > appreciate it greatly. > > 1) Added the sources for the online repositories to > /etc/apt/sources.list, did the apt-get upgrade thing, and am happily > using Netscape 4.75 -- w/ one exception. When I enter the information > for the pop/smtp server that I receive/send mail from, I cannot get any > new mail. When I click on the 'Get Messages' icon, it(Netscape) tells > me that I have no new messages. Like heck I don't! At the time I had > something like 200+ messages on my Yahoo! account. I've set this up in > the past on other systems (Mandrake, SuSE, RedHat), and I'd be > interested on why it doesn't seem to be functional on Debian.
200+ messages and 200+ NEW messages are very different. netscape by default wont download read mail. > from fetchmail. I read thru the docs, but something wasn't working > right, because fetchmail couldn't get a response on port 25. can you telnet to your ip/localhost on port 25 ? maybe exim is not runinning..i prefer sendmail for my systems just cuz i know it better then i know the others. > 3) After setting up fetchmail, and running it, I seem to be getting a > bunch of mails (so far over a dozen) which show up in Netscape as having > no title, being from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (me), and the header is displayed > as part of the message. As such, the Netscape filters don't move them > to the appropriate folders correctly. What could be causing this? possible it has something to do with the mail server and how it gives out mail. i have never used any of the free web based emailers(or free emailers in general) but my experience with netscape on almost countless accounts on "real" servers i have never experienced this. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
