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Yet another obscure + unexpected bump to trip over. |
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I carefully copied .fetchmailrc from the other machine |
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-- I'm now using the new one to send this -- made sure |
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it was owned by 'purslow' (user) & had read permissions. Not enough ! |
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Could I get error msgs ? How could I find out what it was doing ? |
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Google showed msgs from others with this type of problem |
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& what they were doing was running 'fetchmail -v'. |
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I hadn't thought that I could run it myself (slightly red face). |
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RTFM : front + centre it says to try 'fetchmail -vvv --nodetach --nosyslog'. |
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That immediately told me the very non-obvious but crucial information : |
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" ~/.fetchmail must have no more permissions than 700". Whyever ? |
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So 'chmod', wait till the next 5-min point at which the script runs |
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& yes, there are my test msgs from the older machine waiting for me ! |
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This is yet another example of what was described in a recent thread : |
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Gentoo may need a lot of time to install & some time to maintain |
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-- like training, then exercising a dog, perhaps -- , |
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but the problems are rarely > 1 layer deep & there's lots of help. |
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HTH others. |
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SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb |
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