Re: Mail Confusion

2017-04-13 Thread Dan Purgert
Hans wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 13. April 2017, 15:47:07 CEST schrieb Dan Purgert: > Hi Dan, >> How are these computers connecting to the mailserver? If it's IMAP, the >> client and server will resync when the client connects ... so if your >> oldPC last sync'd a month ago, it'll take it a while to

Re: Mail Confusion

2017-04-13 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 13. April 2017, 15:47:07 CEST schrieb Dan Purgert: Hi Dan, > How are these computers connecting to the mailserver? If it's IMAP, the > client and server will resync when the client connects ... so if your > oldPC last sync'd a month ago, it'll take it a while to validate what >

Re: Mail Confusion

2017-04-13 Thread Hans
Hi Dan, > How are these computers connecting to the mailserver? If it's IMAP, the > client and server will resync when the client connects ... so if your > oldPC last sync'd a month ago, it'll take it a while to validate what > it's supposed to do with the (now deleted) messages that it still

Re: Mail Confusion

2017-04-13 Thread Dan Purgert
Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > I am a little bit confused about mail behaviour. There are two things, > I do not understand. > > First of all, the following: > > When I was long time online with another computer, reading my mails, > and then switch to another computer back, then I rsync the

Mail Confusion

2017-04-12 Thread Hans
Dear list, I am a little bit confused about mail behaviour. There are two things, I do not understand. First of all, the following: When I was long time online with another computer, reading my mails, and then switch to another computer back, then I rsync the Mailfolder to the other

popcon mail confusion

2008-06-13 Thread Adam Hardy
Hi I'm trying to work out what popcon is doing when it tries to email. Normally it submits the results via http, but I guess sometimes the internet is down or something. popcon has installed itself as a crontab.weekly job which is executed by user root, I presume, but I get a 'mail delivery

Re: popcon mail confusion

2008-06-13 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Hardy wrote: popcon has installed itself as a crontab.weekly job which is executed by user root, I presume, but I get a 'mail delivery failed' turn up in my user account, not in root. I checked the config for popcon and I can see how it is picking up my user account. How can it be

Re: mail confusion

2000-01-24 Thread Gary Hennigan
paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] OK. At least I feel I`m doing something constructive now. Firstly dpkg -l | grep mail transport tells me: FUDO2:/home/guest# dpkg -l | grep mail transport ii sendmail8.9.3-20 A powerful mail transport agent. which is as I expected

Re: mail confusion

2000-01-22 Thread aphro
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, paul wrote: paul.w paul.w FUDO2:/home/guest# sendmail -v paul paul.w hello paul.w . paul.w paul... Connecting to local... paul.w paul... Sent paul.w chances are that the system just used the local delivery agent(in most cases procmail) to deliver the mail.. paul.w

Re: mail confusion

2000-01-22 Thread paul
aphro wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, paul wrote: paul.w paul.w FUDO2:/home/guest# sendmail -v paul paul.w hello paul.w . paul.w paul... Connecting to local... paul.w paul... Sent paul.w chances are that the system just used the local delivery agent(in most cases procmail) to deliver

Re: mail confusion

2000-01-21 Thread paul
Gary Hennigan wrote: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It`s a long story but in order to install fidogate I replaced my perfectly working exim with sendmail. Now when I try to collect my mail with fetchmail I get: reading message 1 of 10 (1598 header octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to

Re: mail confusion

2000-01-21 Thread aphro
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, paul wrote: paul.w And telnet to port 25: paul.w paul.w FUDO2:/home/guest# telnet localhost 25 paul.w Trying 127.0.0.1... paul.w Connected to dial.pipex.com. paul.w Escape character is '^]'. paul.w mail... Recipient names must be specified paul.w ^] paul.w telnet q paul.w

Re: mail confusion

2000-01-21 Thread paul
aphro wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, paul wrote: paul.w And telnet to port 25: paul.w paul.w FUDO2:/home/guest# telnet localhost 25 paul.w Trying 127.0.0.1... paul.w Connected to dial.pipex.com. paul.w Escape character is '^]'. paul.w mail... Recipient names must be specified paul.w ^]

mail confusion

2000-01-20 Thread Paul
It`s a long story but in order to install fidogate I replaced my perfectly working exim with sendmail. Now when I try to collect my mail with fetchmail I get: reading message 1 of 10 (1598 header octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: IMAP A0007 LOGOUT fetchmail: IMAP )

Re: mail confusion

2000-01-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It`s a long story but in order to install fidogate I replaced my perfectly working exim with sendmail. Now when I try to collect my mail with fetchmail I get: reading message 1 of 10 (1598 header octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed The above is

Re: mail confusion

2000-01-20 Thread aphro
fetchmail sends mail by resending it through the local SMTP server, try to telnet to your smtp server (telnet localhost 25) chances are you dont have a SMTP server running, or it is firewalled nate On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Paul wrote: skin It`s a long story but in order to install fidogate I