Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-13 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/14/14, Harry Putnam wrote: > Brian 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 loo

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian 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 >> reason why

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 o

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-12 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/12/14, Harry Putnam wrote: > Zenaan Harkness 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 pro

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 th

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread AW
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 11:25:52 -0400 Harry Putnam 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: > fetchmail: Old UID list from pop.newsguy.c

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: > On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 11:25:52 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> AW writes: >> >> > On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400 >> > Harry Putnam wrote: >> > >> > > Fetchmail is never a problem... and yet: >> > > I've been moving my main work host, (Debian jessie), to a vm running on >

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 11:25:52 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > AW writes: > > > On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400 > > Harry Putnam 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. > >

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Zenaan Harkness 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 record.. its a bit

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread Harry Putnam
AW writes: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400 > Harry Putnam 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 >

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread AW
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:24:06 -0400 AW 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 --Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Egad stumped by fetchmail ...

2014-08-11 Thread AW
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400 Harry Putnam 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 you will need to

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? Conta

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), t