Re: Holiday arrangements

[Richard Kimber <rkimber@ntlworld.com>]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:56:39 -0400 (EDT)
Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@mindspring.com> wrote:


> Perhaps we could help you do that if you could be more specific about
> the problem.  Have you installed and used fetchmailconf?

Thanks.
Yes.  I configured it, and the test produces:-.

fetchmail: POP3> LIST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 9 messages
fetchmail: POP3< 1 4826
fetchmail: POP3< 2 2814
fetchmail: POP3< 3 12742
fetchmail: POP3< 4 3396
fetchmail: POP3< 5 5145
fetchmail: POP3< 6 7361
fetchmail: POP3< 7 2418
fetchmail: POP3< 8 2317
fetchmail: POP3< 9 3327
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 4826 octets
reading message rkimber@pop.ntlworld.com:1 of 9 (4826 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< On 01 Aug 2002 00:37:30 +0800
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.ntlworld.com
fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying pop.ntlworld.com (protocol POP3) at Wed 31 Jul
2002 18:40:03 BST: poll completed
fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
fetchmail: normal termination, status 10
Done.

When I run it with -v nothing seems to happen, and Sylpheed doesn't detect
an new messages (I assume I need to have this configured to read from
/var/spool/mail with Protocol None (local).

- Richard.