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Re: fetchmail:cannot create lock file



Sebastian Canagaratna <s-canagaratna@onu.edu> writes:

> I am using debian and after upgrading to testing I am having
> problem with fetchmail. My mail is on another server and I have
> used fetchmail to get the mail successfully before. I am using
> mutt. I was foooling around with .muttrc to get IMAP to work.
> I don't know whether this has any connection with the fetchmail
> failure. I am unable to see any messages in any log file. 
> 
> I tried to reinstall fetchmail using apt-get, but it wanted to 
> remove several packages  and warned me about it, so I did not
> reinstall.
> 
> Any suggestions about rectifying this problem?

Don't know much about IMAP   but to get some logs set this in .fetchmailrc


 

# next line when uncommented sends output to maillog -
set  syslog


Hope that gives you some clues ;-)



Glyn
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