On Mon 11 Aug 2014 at 11:25:52 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > AW <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:01:07 -0400 > > Harry Putnam <[email protected]> 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 enable the service daemon... > > > > sudo systemctl enable fetchmail > > > > in order for it to start on host boot. > > I don't use the daemon. And the fact that a connection is being made > should indicate it has nothing to do with the daemon... no? > > I've always run fetchmail either from cron or manually. > > There is no daemon running on the other machine where all seems to be > in order either. > > And yet something seems to be causing the verbose setting to produce > insufficient output on the new host.
Time to go back to basics. brian@desktop:~$ telnet pop.newsguy.com pop3 Trying 74.209.136.72... Connected to pop.newsguy.com. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Qpopper (version 4.0.14) at jorel.newsguy.com starting. user itsme +OK Password required for itsme. pass password1 -ERR [AUTH] Password supplied for "itsme" is incorrect. +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". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
