Re: [expert] Configuring PINE -- Last step

[Jeanette Russo]

R_Yeo wrote:
> 
> > total 440
> > drwxrwxr-x    2 root     mail         1024 Oct 18 00:01 .
> > drwxr-xr-x   18 root     root         1024 Oct 15 17:07 ..
> > -rw-------    1 root     root       444947 Oct 18 00:01 root
> > [sher@adsl-77-232-172 mail]$
> 
> Hi,
>         I may have missed the plot somewhere along the line; if so, blame it on
> Netscape's threading of my mail, and thrash this.  But it looks like you
> have run fetchmailconf as root.  A quick check would be to see if the
> file .fetchmailrc is in your home dir or in root's.  Your mail has
> apparently been downloaded by fetchmail, but kept in root's mailbox, and
> PINE would not have permission to access that.
> 
> Tell us the outcome.
> 
> --
> Ronald Yeo
 This looks like what was happening to me.  It has to do with your
sendmail configuration.  Make sure postfix is not installed.  Then make
sure your sendmail is configured correctly.
Jeanette