On Aug 01, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > I meant that I compiled mutt with '--enable-pop' (...)
>
> Yep, that's what I meant, too ... I never really tried it, so I
> am afraid I can't be of any real help on the technical issues you
> described ...
I'm afraid that the main technical issue is that I'm an idiot... :-)
All I had to do was explicitly check the pop server with the 'G'
command. Everything works now, but I certainly do feel foolish.
My mistake was in assuming that 'mail_check' accessed the pop
server, but it seems that it only polls the spool. The way I've set
things up, polling the spool is useless, since nothing in the
background is feeding it.
> But, IIRC, usually it is suggested that you don't use the
> "built-in" pop capability but a program such as fetchmail [...]
Yes, I've considered that. I just wanted to make mutt work for now
in the simplest way possible. I've plenty of time to break/fix it
further in the fullness of time. :-)
> I use Postfix together with fetchmail, and the setup was very easy
> (besides one or two minor problems).
I may well investigate Postfix in the near future. For the time
being, though, I think I'll concentrate on learning how to use mutt
the way it's set up now. I may find that I'll *need* to change it
to do what I want, but I'm too much a newbie to know that yet.
> Let me know if I can be of any further help.
Thanks. It may not be obvious, but you did help me realize that
nothing was feeding the spool, which was the key to the problem.
ken
