No Mail on Spool
Though I can send mail with mutt, I receive nothing. I'm using Linux Mandrake 7.1 with pop, and I'm pretty sure that I've set up the pop options correctly (user, server, password). Nothing goes to the local spool that I've set up, and I get no errors or other signs of trouble from mutt. Any ideas? ken
Re: No Mail on Spool
Hi Ken,
If you are using the built-in pop support (I am not sure about what you
meant with "with pop"), then don't mind reading the rest of this email :).
Otherwise, and although this might seem trivial to you, I had the same problem
until I found out that my MTA was putting my incoming mail in
/home/{username}/Mail/Inbox and I had instructed mutt to only look for mail at
/var/spool/mail/{username}.
Are you sure that mutt is looking for the incoming mail at the right location?
Cheers,
Manuel
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:28:09AM -0400, Ken Kelly wrote:
Though I can send mail with mutt, I receive nothing.
I'm using Linux Mandrake 7.1 with pop, and I'm pretty sure that I've
set up the pop options correctly (user, server, password).
Nothing goes to the local spool that I've set up, and I get no
errors or other signs of trouble from mutt. Any ideas?
Re: No Mail on Spool
Hi Ken, If you are using the built-in pop support (I am not sure about what you meant with "with pop"), then don't mind reading the rest of this email :). I meant that I compiled mutt with '--enable-pop' (...) Yep, that's what I meant, too ... I never really tried it, so I am afraid I can't be of any real help on the technical issues you described ... But, IIRC, usually it is suggested that you don't use the "built-in" pop capability but a program such as fetchmail instead. But then, using such a program implies running a MTA such as sendmail or Postfix, so that fetchmail retrieves your email from your ISP's POP server and then feeds it into the delivery queue of your local MTA, which in turn must put it in your spool file (where mutt will look for it). Or you can use procmail, which you can "teach" how to filter your incoming email and then sort it into different mailboxes. I use Postfix together with fetchmail, and the setup was very easy (besides one or two minor problems). Let me know if I can be of any further help. Cheers, Manuel
Re: No Mail on Spool
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, IIRC, usually it is suggested that you don't use the "built-in" pop capability but a program such as fetchmail instead. But then, using such a program implies running a MTA such as sendmail or Postfix, [...] Not necessarily. 'getmail' delivers directly to mbox files or Maildirs, and fetchmail can (I believe) be set to deliver directly through procmail or another MDA rather than by SMTP injection. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ---
Re: No Mail on Spool
But, IIRC, usually it is suggested that you don't use the "built-in" pop capability but a program such as fetchmail instead. But then, using such a program implies running a MTA such as sendmail or Postfix, [...] Not necessarily. 'getmail' delivers directly to mbox files or Maildirs, and fetchmail can (I believe) be set to deliver directly through procmail or another MDA rather than by SMTP injection. Thanks, I didn't know it could also work like that. - Manuel
Re: No Mail on Spool
Using a large mallet, Charles Cazabon whacked out: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, IIRC, usually it is suggested that you don't use the "built-in" pop capability but a program such as fetchmail instead. But then, using such a program implies running a MTA such as sendmail or Postfix, Not necessarily. 'getmail' delivers directly to mbox files or Maildirs, and fetchmail can (I believe) be set to deliver directly through procmail or another MDA rather than by SMTP injection. Yep - I run fetchmail with procmail as the mda (qmail / maildir users consider maildrop) something like: defaults forcecr poll pop.gmx.net with proto pop3 no dns user 'foo' with pass bar mda "sed -e '1s/^\t/Received: /'| formail |/usr/bin/procmail -d mallet" fetchall -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + Lumber Cartel India - tinlcI mallet @ cluestick.org + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis Cynic, n.: One who looks through rose-colored glasses with a jaundiced eye.
Re: No Mail on Spool
On Aug 01, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I meant that I compiled mutt with '--enable-pop' (...) Yep, that's what I meant, too ... I never really tried it, so I am afraid I can't be of any real help on the technical issues you described ... I'm afraid that the main technical issue is that I'm an idiot... :-) All I had to do was explicitly check the pop server with the 'G' command. Everything works now, but I certainly do feel foolish. My mistake was in assuming that 'mail_check' accessed the pop server, but it seems that it only polls the spool. The way I've set things up, polling the spool is useless, since nothing in the background is feeding it. But, IIRC, usually it is suggested that you don't use the "built-in" pop capability but a program such as fetchmail [...] Yes, I've considered that. I just wanted to make mutt work for now in the simplest way possible. I've plenty of time to break/fix it further in the fullness of time. :-) I use Postfix together with fetchmail, and the setup was very easy (besides one or two minor problems). I may well investigate Postfix in the near future. For the time being, though, I think I'll concentrate on learning how to use mutt the way it's set up now. I may find that I'll *need* to change it to do what I want, but I'm too much a newbie to know that yet. Let me know if I can be of any further help. Thanks. It may not be obvious, but you did help me realize that nothing was feeding the spool, which was the key to the problem. ken
