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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] new machine : mail out, but not in
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:15:44
Message-Id: 20120918231338.GA2892@ca.inter.net
1 The rest of my new box is working, but -- as expected -- mail isn't.
2 I can send mail, which is recorded in syslog & arrives at this machine,
3 but I can't grab mail from the 2 mail servers out there (ISP + UoT).
4 The cron job in /var/spool/cron/crontabs is the same as here
5 with the same permissions & syslog says it runs it every 5 min .
6 .fetchmailrc is the same there as here & so is .procmailrc .
7 I've tried remerging Fetchmail Procmail & their deps & checked USE flags.
8 There definitely was mail to download, as the test msgs I sent
9 had been waiting some time when I got them on this machine
10 (yes, I always send 2 of them via each of the mail servers).
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12 One thought is that it mb due to the presence of Python3 on the new machine:
13 there's a line at the end of the Fetchmail emerge output
14 which says something re "CPython".
15
16 Mail is usually difficult to get going, as there are so many pieces
17 & they all have to work correctly. Any suggestions are very welcome.
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