[email protected] (akhiezer) wrote:
> > 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 > > > > > > -- Now i found my error. I wrote the wrong command to .mailrc. r=imaps://<adress> wrong is: "folder imaps://<adress> -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
