On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 02:26:44PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I changed the /etc/apt/sources.list entries from etch to lenny and ran > apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. All went well but I did > not accept the new exim4 configuration as in the past I had to edit the > configuration. As a result exim4 was left in a broken state that could > neither be fixed nor removed. As instructed, I read > /usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz and tried to follow the > instructions without success (my fault, I just could find proper file and > make the change as instructed). Finally, I found example.conf.gz in > /usr/share/doc/exim4/examples, unzipped it and copied it to > /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template. With this change apt-get -f install > completed the installation of exim4. > > With exim4 installed fetchmail fetched 200+ postings from several users > lists and put them somewhere but mutt couldn't find them. As root I ran > runq but mutt still found nothing. > > I know most of this setup works because I sent an email to myself and then > ran strace -e open,write fetchmail. I was able to read the email I sent to > myself in the output. > > Also mutt still displays older messages which I have not erased. > > For the present I am reading my emails with iceape but I preferred the mutt > output. > > I would appreciate any help in restoring the mutt output of the email that > fetchmail fetches. Does /var/log/mail.log say to where the messages were delivered? Ben
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