On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 02:50 -0500, Eric Raymond wrote: > Noel Butler <noel.but...@ausics.net>: > > So, do we conclude from this your issue is now resolved? > > Possible, but not verified. If I mess with the mail system for > diagnostic purposes I risk breaking it before my wife has caught up > with her week's backlog of email. This would make her more unhappy > than the diagnostic information can justify. So I am not, not, *not* > going to touch it for a few days. > > I can say that I think I have narrowed the problem down to one of two causes: > > (1) mail_location being misconfigured, with diagnostic problems > bedeviling me because dovecot.conf is a persistent daemon that has to > be SIGHUPped to read its config, rather than an inetd plugin. > > (2) Some weird permissions problem scewing up location autodetection, > which I solved shotgun-fashion by adding Cathy to all the groups I'm > a member of. > > The evidence for theory (2) is that I was able to fetch mail even when > mail_location was misconfigured. At some point I'll back Cathy out of these > groups and see if her fetches break. > > Matters were not helped by the fact that Thunderbird is fluky and > overcomplicated. When you have a fetch failure with one of these > GUIfied MUAs like Thunderbird or KMail it can be difficult to tease > apart client-side problems from IMAP server issues. Fetchmail plus > mutt is way superior from a troubleshooting point of view. > > I shall probably blog a rant about this latter issue soon.
hehe, OK, so long as things are working which is the goal, TB is horrid, I detest it, my staff detest it, I tell em to tell users to use a real client :) being a Gnome fan, it has to be evolution. fetchmail is good, I use it for my 'more general` mailing lists account which differs from this one, thats the one like linux kernel and bunch of others that gets around 300 msgs plus a day, so of course I only skim over them using pine :)
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