Thanks for your response Randall. > > > or looking in the wrong place. > > This I have a feeling is happening. I copy my mailbox file (/var/spool/ > > mail/hoffy) into /var/spool/pop expecting Qpopper to see it but it still > > tells me zero messages. > > That seems very odd.
Yeah, just what I thought. I figured that should've done it to. Any ideas on why this didn't work? You also saw, I'm sure, that I explicitly created a config file and was trying to order Qpopper to use /var/spool/mail as my mailbox path but it appears it is totally ignoring that. Could it be that Qpopper is not seeing this config file for some reason? Also, when I use the telnet command to invoke Qpopper and it accepts the user and password stuff and then tells me no messages, doesn't that mean Qpopper is up and running? > Which version of Qpopper? $ qpopper -v Qpopper version 4.0.3 (non-standalone) > Probably the best thing is to get a fresh copy of 4.0.3 and run > './configure' and 'make' yourself. Then, if you still have any > problems, you can enable debug tracing and see what's going on. I have no problem doing that but its a shame I should have to. I am curious what difference this would make? I suppose I can't enable debug tracing unless that is compiled into the executable, is that right? I am guessing the Debian maintainer of this package used all the default settings when he/she compiled it. I am also guessing that would be the most logical thing to do because if there are any specific user settings/configuration issues shouldn't I be able to negociate those through command line options or a configuration file? If not then I wonder what it is that I need to compile in to make a difference from what is going on now. For some reason I have a feeling I am in for a big time-consuming fight here. I don't understand what I am doing wrong. It all seems so cut and dried. My ISP is, of course, using a POP server to deliver messages to me. Could there be something his POP server is doing so that these messages can't be delivered again by another POP server? Does that make any sense? Thanks again.
