Re: fetchmail & mutt

2001-04-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Dave Murray proclaimed on mutt-users that: > Thank you, that fixed it but now my mail goes to /var/spool/mail/me > where it was spooling to ~/Mail/inbox. My other folders are in > ~/Mail/somenames. Is there a convenient way to get the new mail > in /var/spool/mail/me to ~/Mail/inbox ? set fol

Re: fetchmail & mutt

2001-04-15 Thread Dave Murray
Wade A. Mosely wrote on mutt-users: > This is somewhat off-topic; where your mail is delivered is the > job of the mail delivery agent (MDA) and not that of the mail > user agent (MUA). For example, if you are using procmail as the > MDA, as I am, then if you specify a value for $DEFAULT in your

Re: fetchmail & mutt

2001-04-15 Thread Wade A. Mosely
Dave Murray wrote: > Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote on mutt-users: > > Something is fubarred with the permissions of /var/spool/mail I > > expect. Try chmod 777 /var/spool/mail, chmod +t /var/spool/mail > > > > And have something listening on port 25 unless you use procmail as > > your mda ("/

Re: fetchmail & mutt

2001-04-15 Thread Dave Murray
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote on mutt-users: > Something is fubarred with the permissions of /var/spool/mail I > expect. Try chmod 777 /var/spool/mail, chmod +t /var/spool/mail > > And have something listening on port 25 unless you use procmail as > your mda ("/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" should

Re: fetchmail & mutt

2001-04-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Dave Murray proclaimed on mutt-users that: > I'm hopeing that someone that uses fetchmail with mutt can help. > 1. without [and want mda/bsmtp "/path"] fetch times out while trying to read. > 2. with [and want mda "/path"] fetch gives a no write permission error. Something is fubarred with the

Re: fetchmail & mutt

2001-04-15 Thread Tim Whitehead
I think you would want to install qmail or some other mail system that is setup to "listen" on port 25 (smtp). That way fetchmail can run the way it was intended. tw Le jour Sun Apr 15, 2001 at 03:38:40PM -0700, Dave Murray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) a écrit... > I'm hopeing that someone that use