> -Mandrake 8.0 Good > -Postfix to send Good > -Fetch to fetch Good > -Pine to do the other stuff Good. > -Problem: Can send mail, cannot receive 1. Did you run fetchmail with the -v parameter? That is the verbose / blabbermouth option. See if there is mail coming in. -v will tell you. And also specify "keep" there, so mail will remain on the server and you can pull it a second time in case it ends up in the bitbucket on your machine. 2. Fetchmail hands incoming mail to the mail system (Postfix in this case). Is Postfix set up to handle incoming mail and deliver it properly? I had this problem also, and decided to switch to enabling SMTP in postfix (/etc/master.cf IIRC.) After changing the config, do a "service postfix reload" 3. Check www.postfix.org for the FAQ. You need to make sure that Postfix is setup correctly, the localdomain, mydomain etc things are kind of confusing at times to set up, even when getting it to run should be very simple (it was for me). 4. If you can't use SMTP in postfix, I suggest you go for getmail, a python script that pulls mail from as many pop servers you want. It is Really Good, I use it for several pop-servers that I can't do with SMTP. Find getmail at www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-2.0/ > I think that my problem boils down to permissions (at least for the > moment). In pine I got a mail that I somehow generated directly (since I > can't access anything over the Net) and when I try to delete it I get a > message saying that the folder is read only. Not good. > > However, the folder is something called INBOX. It maps to a folder and > file for which I think I have permissions (read and write). So > somewhere is the configuration for INBOX. So far I have not found it > although I will continue to search via the Pine Config option. . . Usually mail will arrive in a file called /var/spool/mail/<yourname> cd to /var/spool/mail and ls -l to see the owner and permissions there The pointer to where the mail is _is_ in .pinerc somewhere, I just don't recall where. > In the meantime if anyone has any suggestions I would seriously love to > hear them, whatever they might be. At this point I would willingly try > incantations, magic potions, a bit of Nostril-damus, whatever. Hmmmm. You can try hopping around the PC on your left foot, with a branch of Yew tree in your right hand. Not that it will help, but the people around will have a good laugh *grin* Good luck with the problem and even more with fixing it!! Paul
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