Yet another obscure + unexpected bump to trip over. I carefully copied .fetchmailrc from the other machine -- I'm now using the new one to send this -- made sure it was owned by 'purslow' (user) & had read permissions. Not enough !
Could I get error msgs ? How could I find out what it was doing ? Google showed msgs from others with this type of problem & what they were doing was running 'fetchmail -v'. I hadn't thought that I could run it myself (slightly red face). RTFM : front + centre it says to try 'fetchmail -vvv --nodetach --nosyslog'. That immediately told me the very non-obvious but crucial information : " ~/.fetchmail must have no more permissions than 700". Whyever ? So 'chmod', wait till the next 5-min point at which the script runs & yes, there are my test msgs from the older machine waiting for me ! This is yet another example of what was described in a recent thread : Gentoo may need a lot of time to install & some time to maintain -- like training, then exercising a dog, perhaps -- , but the problems are rarely > 1 layer deep & there's lots of help. HTH others. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
