> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:12:24 +0100 > From: Sven Bartscher <[email protected]> > To: BLFS support <[email protected]> > Subject: [blfs-support] mailx > > Hey guys! > A few days ago i installed mailx (or nail). I configured so i can send > mails via my yahoo.de mail-adress. But i can't read my mails. Ever if i > start mailx i get this message: > "imaps://[email protected]:993": 22 messages (few > minutes ago there was unread mail but now i reead it another way, but it > didn't work too.) > No mail for sven > But then it ends i can't read the mails or can do anything. > Here my ~/.mailrc: > set smtp=smtps://smtp.mail.yahoo.com:465 > set [email protected] > set smtp-auth=login > set [email protected] > folder imaps://[email protected]:993 > is this supposed to happen? Did i something wrong? How can i fix this? > with hopefull regards > Sven > -- >
(I only use mailx with a local sendmail - it's been years since have used it for pop/imap; so the following is maybe a bit broad-brushed.) Some pointers: -- * have you got a pop-client configured somewhere (in mailx or thunderbird or some other prog) that has downloaded the messages and removed them from the server? I guess maybe not, given the '22 messages' notice: but worth double-checking. * switch on verbosity in .mailrc: 'set verbose'; then retry - do you see anything in the messages that indicates more clearly what's wrong? (You say that outgoing messages are OK: so don't really need to do 'set sendwait'). * does it ask you for a password? If not, where/when do you specify a password? **Don't, of course, post your password to this list.** * does yahoo imap server need some namespace workarounds: see the discussion concerning "imaps://[email protected]/INBOX." in the distrib .mailrc file. * Have you got 'disconnected' enabled? If so, you might want to comment it back out, at least for debugging. * Is the above your _entire_ ~/.mailrc? Is there a ~/.nailrc also? If posting, redact passwords & any other sensitive info. * For the yahoo imaps server, you might need to use a specific combination of some of the 'imap-use-starttls*', 'imap-*', 'set smtp-use-starttls', and 'smtp-*', vars: these are all well-documented in the default .mailrc . Switching on verbosity, per above, should help determine which, and what forms, of these vars you'll need. -- hth, akh -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
