Re: System-wide fetchmailrc

["Thomas J. Hamman" <hawk3@eagnet.com>]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:14:06PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
 
> It is having trouble to connect to either your SMTP listener, or the email
> server. Stop it, and run it with -v to enable verbose mode, as per the
> documentation in the package (FAQs, readmes, etc).
> 
> Hint: /etc/default/fetchmail.

Okay; I tried that and it works now after I stopped it and restarted it.
(Also, I should note that when it wasn't working, I was still able to
retrieve mail by manually running fetchmail as a user (using the user's
~/.fetchmailrc, which differs from /etc/fetchmailrc only in that it
doesn't include the "is <username> here" part).)

So, it's fine now, but I'm still stumped as to how the system-wide
fetchmail process ended up in a state where it was running but not
working, and I'm not looking forward to having to periodically restart
the process myself if it keeps happening.

-- 
Thomas J. Hamman
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
        -Albert Einstein