Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mail problem : solved

2012-09-19 Thread Philip Webb
120919 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:18:45 -0400 > Philip Webb wrote: >> RTFM : front + centre it says to try 'fetchmail -vvv --nodetach >> --nosyslog'. That immediately told me the very non-obvious but >> crucial information : " ~/.fetchmail must have no more permissions >> than 7

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mail problem : solved

2012-09-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:18:45 -0400 Philip Webb wrote: > RTFM : front + centre it says to try 'fetchmail -vvv --nodetach > --nosyslog'. That immediately told me the very non-obvious but > crucial information : " ~/.fetchmail must have no more permissions > than 700". Whyever ? That's quite norma

[gentoo-user] new machine : mail problem : solved

2012-09-18 Thread Philip Webb
Yet another obscure + unexpected bump to trip over. I carefully copied .fetchmailrc from the other machine -- I'm now using the new one to send this -- made sure it was owned by 'purslow' (user) & had read permissions. Not enough ! Could I get error msgs ? How could I find out what it was doi