Fetchmail socket problem

[jdow]

From: "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk>

> On Monday 23 Jan 2006 19:06, jdow wrote:
>>
>> It may be as simple as telling kmail to get NEW mail from the spool
>> directory, /var/spool/mail/xxx. Or it may involve telling Dovecot
>> to use the spool directories for incoming and the user home directory
>> "mail" directory for storing the mail folders for imap. That chunk
>> of documentation is not particularly trying. I managed to solve it.
>> I think it involved a one liner:
>> MAIL=/home/xxx/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/xxx
>>
> That makes sense.  I'll see if that makes a difference.  Right now the 
> logs seem to imply that I have transport problems, which is something 
> new since yesterday :-(  It's one big merry-go-round.

Make sure nothing else is calling procmail or forwarding back to your
mail address. Log hits might be interesting. At least that will tell
dovecot where to go to get the mail. Er, make sure kmail is NOT doing
the fetchmail and procmail from the same rc file. That could cause a
loop. (I am concluding based on two people with kmail problems that
kmail is its own best punishment for using it.)

>> >> (I'm heading off to bed now. So I won't be able to follow up for
>> >> "several hours".)
>> >
>> > Sleep well.
>>
>> Well, sorta. Winds are pushing 70 MPH gusts here. Loren and I are
>> going to have to play chainsaw games to get out of the driveway.
>> There seems to be a foot and a half diameter "branch" across it. The
>> wind woke me up and I couldn't get back to sleep. Ah well, another
>> night.
>>
>> {^_-}   The Chainsaw Babe (Well, I let Loren do that. I just try to
>>         push 'em out of the way. But it does sound good.)
> 
> You have my sympathy.  Last winter I was visiting my daughter and we got 
> up after such a night to find a 50 foot tree down across the gateway.  
> Our home-coming was somewhat delayed ;-)

I have to turn in my chainsaw babe bikini. A city fella came by as we
were starting to chop it up and decided he'd get a crew there in ten or
fifteen minutes rather than have one of us drop a foot diameter log on
a leg and sue the city. Darn!

{^_-}