On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:39:18 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Thank you Matt. That did the trick, and I now have fetchmail
> > working.
>
> I do so wish this list wouldn't go silent for several days just after
> I've made a change to my email process. This isn't the first time,
> either.
Damn!
On 30 November 2017 01:39:18 GMT+01:00, Peter Humphrey
wrote:
>On Monday, 27 November 2017 13:44:15 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> On Friday, 24 November 2017 18:10:21 GMT Matthias Hanft wrote:
>> > Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> > > The ebuild installs /etc/init.d/fetchmail and
>/etc/conf.d/fetchmail,
>
On Monday, 27 November 2017 13:44:15 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday, 24 November 2017 18:10:21 GMT Matthias Hanft wrote:
> > Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > The ebuild installs /etc/init.d/fetchmail and /etc/conf.d/fetchmail,
> > > so
> > > it seems to expect me to run as a daemon. But then ther
On 27.11.17 14:44, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Do I really need to do that on this small, low-volume network? What do
> I lose by letting postfix and fetchmail write files for dovecot to read?
It is very easy to configure Postfix to use an LMTP socket provided
by Dovecot (paths match typical installa
On Friday, 24 November 2017 18:10:21 GMT Matthias Hanft wrote:
> Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > The ebuild installs /etc/init.d/fetchmail and /etc/conf.d/fetchmail, so
> > it seems to expect me to run as a daemon. But then there's no sample
> > fetchmailrc, which surprises me.
>
> A simple example line
On Friday, 24 November 2017 17:52:36 GMT Ralph Seichter wrote:
> As the OP is using Postfix to feed data to Dovecot, I strongly suggest
> configuring Dovecot's LMTP as a mailbox transport instead of having
> Postfix write directly to the file system.
Do I really need to do that on this small, low-
Yes, I have an IMAP account provided by GMail.
On 11/26/2017 12:58 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 26/11/2017 04:30, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> On Saturday, 25 November 2017 16:20:46 GMT Jalus Bilieyich wrote:
>>> As an everyday user of KMail, I am completely happy with using it. I
>>> don't see any f
On Sunday, 26 November 2017 10:22:26 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote:
> I use kmail a lot on my desktop and laptop and have not noticed that in a
> very long time. It has actually been quite stable.
I use it on 3 different boxen. Two of them in daily usage have frequent
problems of dups and random resyn
On Sunday, 26 November 2017 10:00:40 GMT Ralph Seichter wrote:
> On 26.11.2017 03:30, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I get duplicate messages, which are a known problem and easily worked
> > around, but the latest version of KMail whinges about more than one
> > candidate for display and just gives up.
On Sunday, 26 November 2017 06:58:06 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 26/11/2017 04:30, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Saturday, 25 November 2017 16:20:46 GMT Jalus Bilieyich wrote:
> >> As an everyday user of KMail, I am completely happy with using it. I
> >> don't see any flaws with it. Maybe it's jus
On 24 November 2017 18:30:22 GMT+01:00, Rich Freeman wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Ralph Seichter
> wrote:
>> On 24.11.17 16:39, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying an evasion, which is to use fetchmail to retrieve emails
>>> from my ISP and deliver them to postfix, which can then
On 26 November 2017 03:30:11 GMT+01:00, Peter Humphrey
wrote:
>On Saturday, 25 November 2017 16:20:46 GMT Jalus Bilieyich wrote:
>> As an everyday user of KMail, I am completely happy with using it. I
>> don't see any flaws with it. Maybe it's just me or...? Is there a
>reason
>> behind the hosti
On 26.11.2017 03:30, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I get duplicate messages, which are a known problem and easily worked
> around, but the latest version of KMail whinges about more than one
> candidate for display and just gives up.
For debugging purposes it might help you to know that you actually se
On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 02:30:11 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > As an everyday user of KMail, I am completely happy with using it. I
> > don't see any flaws with it. Maybe it's just me or...? Is there a
> > reason behind the hostile glare towards KMail?
>
> Do you have POP3 or IMAP-4 accounts?
>
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Date : 26/11/2017 03:30 (GMT+01:00) À : gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Objet :
Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix
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Date : 26/11/2017 03:30 (GMT+01:00) À :
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On Saturday, 25 November 2017 rSw16:20:46 GMT
On 26/11/2017 04:30, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 November 2017 16:20:46 GMT Jalus Bilieyich wrote:
>> As an everyday user of KMail, I am completely happy with using it. I
>> don't see any flaws with it. Maybe it's just me or...? Is there a reason
>> behind the hostile glare towards KMai
On Saturday, 25 November 2017 16:20:46 GMT Jalus Bilieyich wrote:
> As an everyday user of KMail, I am completely happy with using it. I
> don't see any flaws with it. Maybe it's just me or...? Is there a reason
> behind the hostile glare towards KMail?
Do you have POP3 or IMAP-4 accounts?
It use
As an everyday user of KMail, I am completely happy with using it. I
don't see any flaws with it. Maybe it's just me or...? Is there a reason
behind the hostile glare towards KMail?
On 11/25/2017 03:23 AM, Marc Joliet wrote:
> Am Samstag, 25. November 2017, 10:04:44 CET schrieb Neil Bothwick:
>> O
Am Samstag, 25. November 2017, 10:04:44 CET schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> On Sat, 25 Nov 2017 09:43:04 +0100, Marc Joliet wrote:
> > > Funnily enough, I switched to Claws because I found KMail
> > > horrible...
> >
> > I switched from Claws to KMail in part because I hated that checking
> > for emails
On Sat, 25 Nov 2017 09:43:04 +0100, Marc Joliet wrote:
> > Funnily enough, I switched to Claws because I found KMail
> > horrible...
>
> I switched from Claws to KMail in part because I hated that checking
> for emails would block the GUI. Not being able to type because Claws
> decided to chec
Am Freitag, 24. November 2017, 23:24:45 CET schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 15:39:25 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > My MUA is KMail-2, which seems to be all right for others using IMAP
> > but is very far from robust when fetching POP3 mails. I've tried
> > alternatives to it, but no
On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 15:39:25 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> My MUA is KMail-2, which seems to be all right for others using IMAP
> but is very far from robust when fetching POP3 mails. I've tried
> alternatives to it, but none of them suit me - in particular,
> claws-mail is horrible,
Funnily en
Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> The ebuild installs /etc/init.d/fetchmail and /etc/conf.d/fetchmail, so it
> seems to expect me to run as a daemon. But then there's no sample
> fetchmailrc, which surprises me.
A simple example line from my /etc/fetchmailrc is:
poll pop.mail.server.example.com proto
On 24.11.17 18:30, Rich Freeman wrote:
> While Postfix certainly won't serve up email via IMAP it definitely
> does store email.
As an MTA should, Postfix transports email. It can also handle local
mail transport (say, in maildirs) and I guess one could call that
"storing" mail, but to me that's
On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Ralph Seichter
wrote:
> On 24.11.17 16:39, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
>> I'm trying an evasion, which is to use fetchmail to retrieve emails
>> from my ISP and deliver them to postfix, which can then serve them
>> via IMAP.
>
> Postfix is an MTA and does neither stor
On 24.11.17 17:40, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> That's because I don't yet know enough to know what questions to ask;
> that's why I hoped I'd be pointed to a general guide or explanation.
http://www.fetchmail.info/ is the most obvious starting point, and I
assume you have found that one. Fetchmail pe
On Friday, 24 November 2017 16:16:15 GMT Ralph Seichter wrote:
> On 24.11.17 16:39, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I'm trying an evasion, which is to use fetchmail to retrieve emails
> > from my ISP and deliver them to postfix, which can then serve them
> > via IMAP.
>
> Postfix is an MTA and does neit
On Friday, 24 November 2017 16:08:54 GMT Wols Lists wrote:
> On 24/11/17 15:39, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Is there any guidance on setting up fetchmail on Gentoo to operate in
> > this way? I've searched in likely places but the Gentoo docs are long
> > out of date and others don't help much, so I
On 24.11.17 16:39, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I'm trying an evasion, which is to use fetchmail to retrieve emails
> from my ISP and deliver them to postfix, which can then serve them
> via IMAP.
Postfix is an MTA and does neither store email nor lets you access email
via IMAP. There must be an IMAP
On 24/11/17 15:39, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Is there any guidance on setting up fetchmail on Gentoo to operate in this
> way? I've searched in likely places but the Gentoo docs are long out of date
> and others don't help much, so I still don't know what to add to /etc/
> conf.d/fetchmail, nor whe
Hello list,
My MUA is KMail-2, which seems to be all right for others using IMAP but is
very far from robust when fetching POP3 mails. I've tried alternatives to
it, but none of them suit me - in particular, claws-mail is horrible,
requiring a very different mental model just to operate it. The
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