Re: [Help! Fetchmail broke]

On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 11:28:36PM -0500, Steve Gore wrote: > Steve Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sigh... > > I noticed my old smail configs were still present, and purged them (via > > dselect)... > > Well, just because I was suspicious, I reinstalled smail and purged exim's > configs. Fet

Re: Help! Fetchmail broke

Hi! ] I checked /var/spool/mail and all folders are either root/mail or srgore/mail ] with rwx rw rw. The last rw allows any user to read and write to the files (mailboxes), what makes it a horrible security hole. Quickly run chmod 1770 /var/spool/mail/* to get things back to normal. HTH Fabio

Re: [Help! Fetchmail broke]

Steve Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sigh... > I noticed my old smail configs were still present, and purged them (via > dselect)... Well, just because I was suspicious, I reinstalled smail and purged exim's configs. Fetchmail worked. Then I reinstalled exim (but left smail's configs in place

Help! Fetchmail broke

Sigh...just got Knews configured, and now I've somehow broke fetchmail. I'm running slink/potato w/exim. The only thing I can point my finger at is between the last succesful fetchmail attempt and the first unsuccesful attempt I noticed my old smail configs were still present, and purged them (vi