021028 Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 27 October 2002 07:33 am, you wrote: >> i use Mutt, but Kmail shouldn't be different in principle when receiving. >> Fetchmail gets mail from ISPs & delivers it to the general mailbox; >> Procmail processes this material & delivers it to your ~/dir/file of >> choice. with my computer name 'purslow', i have in .fetchmailrc : >> set postmaster "purslow" >> set bouncemail >> set no spambounce >> set properties "" >> set daemon 600 >> poll pop.chass.utoronto.ca with proto POP3 >> user 'purslow' there with password '********' is 'purslow' here > Okay, except for the obvious user/password differences, > my .fetchmailrc is identical. (oh, and the polling time) >> and in .procmailrc : >> PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:. >> MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail >> DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/current # this is the file Mutt shows at start >> LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/logfile >> LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail > Only exception here is the LOCKFILE line. I did not have that. > I'll add it and restart everything. > Does the setup create .lockmail automagically > or did you have to create it manually? (touch, etc)
well, actually ... (grin): it doesn't exist! i just checked for ~/.lockmail & there's no such file! i can open & use Kmail when i also have Mutt running, so it mb that i'm simply not protected from clashing file images. >> everything works ok, tho' i notice i'm setting the polling interval twice. the poll interval in my .muttrc dates back to before i used Fetchmail, which i adopted to allow me to poll 2 ISPs. > I did have something strange going on this morning though - > I shutdown last night, restarted this morning > and all the msgs in Kmail were doubled/repeated. > When I clicked on the first of each doubled message, > it would then show no body, and no subject. > The 2nd msg of each doubled message was the "true" message. > Could that be because I didn't have a lockfile in place? i don't know, but it doesn't seem relevant. you need to tell Kmail to delete files from the server after reading them. if you continue to have a problem, i strongly recommend trying Mutt: it requires Smtp (best & adequate) in order to send mail, but can poll 1 ISP server for in-coming mail without Fetchmail; it's not GUI, but it's very stable & has lots of features. my previous experience has been that Kmail -- like Konqueror & KOffice -- are really not finished products, which can fail in unexpected ways. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto
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